Question

trying to use a list of numbers as the source for the jquery ui autocomplete, but I’m having issues populating the data object from the list. Something along these lines :

  var data

  $('.numberList li').each(function (index) {
         data += [$(this).text()];
    });

and the source:

    $("#numberText").autocomplete({
        source: data
    });

Answer 1

You’ll need to use the push method instead of += to add items into an array; like this:

var data = [];
$('.numberList li').each(function (index) {
     data.push($(this).text());
});

$("#numberText").autocomplete({
    source: data
});

I hope this helps!