Not knocking jQuery, but to be clear, the CFInput autosuggest is just as capable of generating its data from a remote call (ajax or otherwise). You can see an example in the CF Developer Guide (I show the CF9 one, but the feature worked essentially the same in CF8):
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172 e0811cbec22c24-7a01.html#WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-720c See also the related topic: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172 e0811cbec22c24-7a0a.html Of course, you can also just google coldfusion autosuggest to find many other resources where people show using this feature, including pros/cons, tips/traps. /charlie > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of goldcoast_nerd > Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 11:03 PM > To: cfaussie > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Creating A Fast Dropdown List Lookup > > > yep jquery is the way to go here, cfinput autosuggest embeds all the > values in the HTML, not ideal. > > here's the plugin i use -- http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/autocomplete > > i would also suggest loading the contents via an ajax request which in > turn returns values from a structure or an array if it doesnt change > that often, so you dont have to run a query in the background on every > keyup. > > all the best. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
