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<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>jQuery UI Autocomplete - Remote datasource</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../themes/base/jquery.ui.all.css"><script src="../../jquery-1.4.2.js"></script><script src="../../ui/jquery.ui.core.js"></script><script src="../../ui/jquery.ui.widget.js"></script><script src="../../ui/jquery.ui.position.js"></script><script src="../../ui/jquery.ui.autocomplete.js"></script><link rel="stylesheet" href="../demos.css"><style>.ui-autocomplete-loading { background: white url('images/ui-anim_basic_16x16.gif') right center no-repeat; }</style><script>$(function() {function log( message ) {$( "<div/>" ).text( message ).prependTo( "#log" );$( "#log" ).attr( "scrollTop", 0 );}$( "#birds" ).autocomplete({source: "search.php",minLength: 2,select: function( event, ui ) {log( ui.item ?"Selected: " + ui.item.value + " aka " + ui.item.id :"Nothing selected, input was " + this.value );}});});</script></head><body><div class="demo"><div class="ui-widget"><label for="birds">Birds: </label><input id="birds" /></div><div class="ui-widget" style="margin-top:2em; font-family:Arial">Result:<div id="log" style="height: 200px; width: 300px; overflow: auto;" class="ui-widget-content"></div></div></div><!-- End demo --><div class="demo-description"><p>The Autocomplete widgets provides suggestions while you type into the field. Here the suggestions are bird names, displayed when at least two characters are entered into the field.</p><p>The datasource is a server-side script which returns JSON data, specified via a simple URL for the source-option. In addition, the minLength-option is set to 2 to avoid queries that would return too many results and the select-event is used to display some feedback.</p></div><!-- End demo-description --></body></html>