Comments on: A jQuery UI Combobox: Under the hood

By: Sindhu

Sindhu — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:58:02 +0000

Can we use a similar code to populate two consecutive combo boxes ?

Selection of value in the first combo box should display a set of values in the second combo box , with selected value shown in the text content of the second combo box.

Right now, on change of first combo box value, the second combo box value is changing with the input text content being same as the previous selection.

Please help!

By: Anil Woona

Anil Woona — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:47:54 +0000

I have an existing SELECT and would like to implement autocomplete widget on it. But my SELECT element uses OPTGROUP to group the options. I tried to use this widget, but coming up with empty results in the combobox. Any help is appreciated! Thank You!

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:16:55 +0000

How can I pass the value of minLength to the function

By: me

me — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:44:57 +0000

select elements only match to the beginning of the string you typed. The combobox also matches to internal strings,, and presents all matches together.

Select example: Type app, go the first item “apple,” type it again, go to the second item “applications,” type it again, go to the third item “applied science.” If these were in alphabetical order, you could use the down arrow to scroll through them, but if they were not contiguous, you would not see all items that start with app all together.

Combobox example: Type app, pulldown presents apple, applications, applied science, bad apple, snapple, other apps….

By: George

George — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:39:21 +0000

Can this combobox be added to the official jquery ui release?

By: Slammer

Slammer — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:39:44 +0000

Hey I figured it out. I’m sure you have too, but for future visitors.

Under the source:
create a variable for EXAMPLE: var re = $.ui.autocomplete.escapeRegex(request.term);
then set the (var matcher = new RegExp( “^” + re, “i” );

Run it and it should work.

By: Slammer

Slammer — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:40:35 +0000

Can anyone help with getting the regex to only display what is being typed if matched. Example: if you press c it will bring up everything that starts with c and not words with c in it? Any help would be great.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 28 May 2011 07:22:38 +0000

Hi all,
is there a way to load data from an array instead of a list of options?
Could you please teach me how to do that?
Thank you!

By: David

David — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:59:02 +0000

Hello. I love this widget but I have been stuggling for hours to try and figure out how to get it to autofill the input box, or do a SelectFirst or mouseenter on the first item. Any idea? I’ve seen bits and pieces of code referring to how to tweak the autosuggest to do autofill but nothing relating to the combobox application. Thanks!

By: tahina

tahina — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:20:07 +0000

a have a problem to use my code inside the jquery ui - autocomplete combobox. please help. i want to use the following code: