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Re: Javascript for HTML select/option form with lots of entries

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On 20-10-2012 20:47, Luuk wrote:
> On 20-10-2012 19:38, Alfred Molon wrote:
>> In article <9dkal9-c2a.ln1@luuk.invalid.lan>, Luuk says...
>>> Google says:
>>> http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/6/14/Example-of-a-dynamic-HTML5-datalist-control
>>>
>>>
>>> or, to try this:
>>> http://raymondcamden.com/demos/2012/jun/14/test2.html
>>
>> Very cool and runs on my FF browser. But does not run under IE (I tried
>> with IE9).
>>
>> The behaviour is a bit different from what I described above. If you
>> type for instance a '5', it shows all entries which contain a 5, not
>> just those which start with a 5.
>>
>
> if i type 'l' (lowercase L)
> i see:
> Leaning House
> Life is a Horse
>
> so, only thing that start with an 'L'
>
>
>> Is there anything which runs on all browsers?
>>
>> If at least the above code defaulted to the standard HTML select/option
>> thing on browsers who do not support this HTML5 element, but no, on IE9
>> it shows all options of the list as text (not selectable).
>>
>
> its using ajax (or jquery)
> look at the code, and make it work for IE should not be so hard.....

The manualpage for jquery is here:
http://api.jqueryui.com/autocomplete/

with an example that works in IE
i'm pretty sure there is a parameter to limit search on the start of a word.

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Javascript for HTML select/option form with lots of entries Alfred Molon <alfred_molon@yahoo.com> - 2012-10-20 14:37 +0200
  Re: Javascript for HTML select/option form with lots of entries Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-10-20 15:09 +0200
    Re: Javascript for HTML select/option form with lots of entries Alfred Molon <alfred_molon@yahoo.com> - 2012-10-20 19:38 +0200
      Re: Javascript for HTML select/option form with lots of entries Danny <dann90038@gmail.com> - 2012-10-20 11:40 -0700
        Re: Javascript for HTML select/option form with lots of entries Alfred Molon <alfred_molon@yahoo.com> - 2012-10-20 21:13 +0200
      Re: Javascript for HTML select/option form with lots of entries Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-10-20 20:47 +0200
        Re: Javascript for HTML select/option form with lots of entries Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-10-20 22:16 +0200
  Re: Javascript for HTML select/option form with lots of entries Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-24 02:21 +0100

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