Question

Right now I have my Autocomplete widget in a text box. Ideally, it would be a Select box, but I can’t figure out how to let somebody type in a select box.

So I am relegated to having a text box and a hidden box. The hidden box should get updated with the id of what displays in the text box.

I am pretty new to jQuery, at least on an in-depth level like this. Am I making this harder than I need to? I definitely need autocomplete, because there are potentially hundreds of thousands of possible values.

Answer 1

There is a great example of precisely this on the jQueryUI demo page for autocomplete. It actually uses a select element as the backing store.

You could easily modify this to use a remote data source. If you need the source to be remote, let me know and I can provide an example.