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From: Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: jQuery and autosuggest and more
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:04:34 +0200
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justaguy wrote:
> What am I missing here?  Many thanks.

You probably want:

	$( "#tags" ).autocomplete({
	   select: function(event, ui) {
		console.log(ui.item);
	   }
	});

And IMHO that's the /most/ basic problem with jQuery and similar
frameworks: they allow one to create amazing results by some trial and
error without even grasping the basics, i.e. what are the semantics of
the code.

About a year ago I've written a simple form generator using jQuery --
without jQuery I couldn't have done it.  But as I wasn't able to grasp
the basics of ECMAScript back then, the code is totally crappy, and I
vainly hope, that I'll never have to correct this...

So, even if using jQuery and the loads of jQuery plugins is very
tempting, you might reconsider this approach, and learn basic ECMAScript
*first*. *Then* you might go on using whatever framework you prefer.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker