i foundnd it, but its getting some flicker effect. how to avoid that? do you any idea? please share with me.
Thanks On Jun 22, 7:36 pm, Dushyant Patel <patel.dushy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Could you please tell me where exactly added following script block. > > isEmpty: function(data) { > if (data == 0) { > $("#result").html("No match found"); > } > } > > I am having same problem, but i don't want to show message, i just > want to simply hide layer. > > On Jun 5, 4:20 pm, JohnT <jtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi. I've just started using jQuery Autocomplete a few weeks ago. > > > While using jQuery, I found that I needed to know how many records > > were returned and also if the result set returned was empty. After > > searching the jQuery documentation I couldn't find any property or > > method that returned this value, so I've added that functionality > > myself and wanted to share it with the group. > > > 1) Determine the number of records returned: > > > I wanted to show the user how many results were returned after they > > start typing into the autocomplete field similar to how Google > > indicates the number of results found when you start typing in the > > search box. > > > At first I thought the max parameter in the function formatItem > > returned this value. However, it returns the max option that you set > > it to. So if your query returns 100 records and you set max to 25, > > it'll obviously return 25 (not what I wanted). > > > So after trying various things, I looked at the jQuery code and simply > > added the number of records returned by the database to the > > formateItem function. In the fillList() function around line 660 I > > added the data.length parameter: > > > var formatted = options.formatItem(data[i].data, i+1, max, data > > [i].value, term, data.length); > > > And in my autocomplete code, I added the parameter to the end of the > > param list: > > > formatItem: function(data, i, total, value, searchTerm, > > totalResults) > > > So now whenever a new search is preformed, I get back the number of > > search result from the database. > > > 2) Determine if a result set returned was empty > > > I wanted to update a <div> with a message like "no records found" > > whenever the query yielded no results. Again, after searching the > > jQuery documentation, I couldn't find any property or method that > > would indicate this so I added it to the code. > > > In the request function after the line var data = cache.load(term); I > > added the following: > > > if (!data) { > > options.isEmpty(0); > > } else { > > options.isEmpty(data.length); > > } > > > And in my autocomplete code, I added the following: > > > isEmpty: function(data) { > > if (data == 0) { > > $("#result").html("No match found"); > > } > > } > > > Hope this helps others. Since I am new to jQuery I'd appreciate any > > feedback especially if there is a better way to do this. > > > Thanks > > John