Brian, >What would be passed to the function? The containing li? a jQuery object >containing the containing li? The HTML text?
The source is available here: http://dev.jquery.com/browser/trunk/plugins/autocomplete/jquery.autocomplete .js 581 function dataToDom() { 582 var num = limitNumberOfItems(data.length); 583 for (var i=0; i < num; i++) { 584 if (!data[i]) 585 continue; 586 function highlight(value) { 587 return value.replace(new RegExp("(" + term + ")", "gi"), "<strong>$1</strong>"); 588 } 589 jQuery("<li>").html( options.formatItem 590 ? highlight(options.formatItem(data[i].data, i+1, num)) 591 : highlight(data[i].value) ).appendTo(list); 592 } 593 listItems = list.find("li"); 594 if ( options.selectFirst ) { 595 listItems.eq(0).addClass(CLASSES.ACTIVE); 596 active = 0; 597 } 598 } At the moment it runs against li.innerHTML. -Dan
