Question

I’m trying to use for the first time the autocomplete feature of jquery ui, but I can’t get it to work properly

javascript code:

$("#search_input").autocomplete({
  source: function(request, response) {
    $.getJSON( "do.php", { OP: "news_search", category: cat_id, get: request }, function(result){
      /*response($.map(result, function(item) {
        return item.NAME;
      }));*/
      response(result);
      console.log(result);
    })
  },
  minLength: 2
});

It returns data, but it won’t show up: http://i46.tinypic.com/1z85c0.png

I’ve even tried adding some css to see if it works:

.ui-autocomplete{
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 1000;
    border: 1px solid red;
}

Answer 1

I ended up reading this article: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/how-to-use-the-jquery-ui-autocomplete-widget/

So this is how I use it and it works:

$("#search_input").autocomplete({
    source: function(request, add) {
        $.getJSON("do.php", { OP: "news_search", category: cat_id, get: request }, function(results){

          consoloe.log(results)
          var suggestions = [];

          $.each(results, function(i, val){
            suggestions.push(val.headline)
          });

          add(suggestions);

        });
    },
    minLength: 2
});