Hi everyone Been experimenting with the autocomplete plugin (http:// docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Autocomplete/autocomplete#url_or_dataoptions) Couldn't wait until it was incorporated into jQuery UI ;)
What I'm trying to achieve is to use the box to search for a company, but actually to get hold of the company ID then save that into my database. At the moment users have to look up the company_id manually and enter it into a field, which is totally stupid these days! I've been using the Single Bird (remote) example on this page... http://view.jquery.com/trunk/plugins/autocomplete/demo/ That demo gets the data from this script... http://view.jquery.com/trunk/plugins/autocomplete/demo/search.phps and you notice in the output it returns 2 values separated by a | pipe character. The bird name and the latin name. Got my server-side script sorted and I've been trying to adapt that example so it returns: company_name|company_id company_name2|company_id2 The autocomplete seems to work (though I need to tweak the options a bit to get it perfect) but how do I access the value after the | pipe character? It's that company_id that I'm actually trying to get hold of in my script Sort of like how the option HTML tag behaves... <option value="company_id">company_name</option>, so the user only sees company_name, but actually they're entering company_id into my form. Any ideas/suggestions on the best way to do this? Cheers, B --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery UI" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-ui@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-ui+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
