I guess you know that the autocomplete was removed from the UI 1.7 release.
That said, I think the result handler will do what you desire: http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Autocomplete/result#handler Dave On Mar 19, 8:05 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Experts, > > i have been working on this since monday and still i dont seem to have > a clue what is stopping it from working. > > What i am trying to do: > I have an autocomplete inputbox which displays matching results from > the database as soon as the user starts typing. > > My problem is: > If a user start typing a characters into the autocomplete inputbox and > there's no matching result from backend, > i want a message "We donot have anything matching this search" to be > displayed. > > Currently i am using this code: > > function findValue(li) { > var $Suggest = $("#operator")[0].autocompleter.findValue(); > if($Suggest == null){ > alert("we donot have any matching result"); > } > return false; > > } > > $(document).ready(function(){ > $("#input").autocomplete("auto.php", > { > delay:10, > lineSeparator: "^", > cacheLength: 10, > matchSubset:1, > matchContains:1, > onFindValue:findValue, > formatItem:formatItem, > autoFill:true > }); > > return false; > )}; > > I am currently totally lost as i have tried everything but doesn't > seems work. Can anyone help? > > Ta! > > B --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery UI" 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/jquery-ui?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
