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JQuery UI autocomplete widget examples with various select/sort options
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Autocomplete Example - JQuery UI</title>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.min.js" integrity="sha256-/xUj+3OJU5yExlq6GSYGSHk7tPXikynS7ogEvDej/m4=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.13.1/jquery-ui.min.js" integrity="sha256-eTyxS0rkjpLEo16uXTS0uVCS4815lc40K2iVpWDvdSY=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.13.1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" integrity="sha256-WKb0npL30v0SRtmMVowqx9a+gy3f7OZ+yffvMzJ2at8=" crossorigin="anonymous">
<script>
$(function() {
var countries = ["Afghanistan","Albania","Algeria","Andorra","Angola","Anguilla","Antigua & Barbuda","Argentina","Armenia","Aruba","Australia","Austria","Azerbaijan","Bahamas","Bahrain","Bangladesh","Barbados","Belarus","Belgium","Belize","Benin","Bermuda","Bhutan","Bolivia","Bosnia & Herzegovina","Botswana","Brazil","British Virgin Islands","Brunei","Bulgaria","Burkina Faso","Burundi","Cambodia","Cameroon","Canada","Cape Verde","Cayman Islands","Central Arfrican Republic","Chad","Chile","China","Colombia","Congo","Cook Islands","Costa Rica","Cote D Ivoire","Croatia","Cuba","Curacao","Cyprus","Czech Republic","Denmark","Djibouti","Dominica","Dominican Republic","Ecuador","Egypt","El Salvador","Equatorial Guinea","Eritrea","Estonia","Ethiopia","Falkland Islands","Faroe Islands","Fiji","Finland","France","French Polynesia","French West Indies","Gabon","Gambia","Georgia","Germany","Ghana","Gibraltar","Greece","Greenland","Grenada","Guam","Guatemala","Guernsey","Guinea","Guinea Bissau","Guyana","Haiti","Honduras","Hong Kong","Hungary","Iceland","India","Indonesia","Iran","Iraq","Ireland","Isle of Man","Israel","Italy","Jamaica","Japan","Jersey","Jordan","Kazakhstan","Kenya","Kiribati","Kosovo","Kuwait","Kyrgyzstan","Laos","Latvia","Lebanon","Lesotho","Liberia","Libya","Liechtenstein","Lithuania","Luxembourg","Macau","Macedonia","Madagascar","Malawi","Malaysia","Maldives","Mali","Malta","Marshall Islands","Mauritania","Mauritius","Mexico","Micronesia","Moldova","Monaco","Mongolia","Montenegro","Montserrat","Morocco","Mozambique","Myanmar","Namibia","Nauro","Nepal","Netherlands","Netherlands Antilles","New Caledonia","New Zealand","Nicaragua","Niger","Nigeria","North Korea","Norway","Oman","Pakistan","Palau","Palestine","Panama","Papua New Guinea","Paraguay","Peru","Philippines","Poland","Portugal","Puerto Rico","Qatar","Reunion","Romania","Russia","Rwanda","Saint Pierre & Miquelon","Samoa","San Marino","Sao Tome and Principe","Saudi Arabia","Senegal","Serbia","Seychelles","Sierra Leone","Singapore","Slovakia","Slovenia","Solomon Islands","Somalia","South Africa","South Korea","South Sudan","Spain","Sri Lanka","St Kitts & Nevis","St Lucia","St Vincent","Sudan","Suriname","Swaziland","Sweden","Switzerland","Syria","Taiwan","Tajikistan","Tanzania","Thailand","Timor L'Este","Togo","Tonga","Trinidad & Tobago","Tunisia","Turkey","Turkmenistan","Turks & Caicos","Tuvalu","Uganda","Ukraine","United Arab Emirates","United Kingdom","United States of America","Uruguay","Uzbekistan","Vanuatu","Vatican City","Venezuela","Vietnam","Virgin Islands (US)","Yemen","Zambia","Zimbabwe"];
// Default settings (unintuitive): Matches anywhere in the term, thus often returning suggestions "out-of-order" (example: 'V' suggests "Bolivia", "Bosnia & Herzegovina", etc before "Vanuatu", "Vatican City")
$("input#includes-term").autocomplete({source: countries});
// Matches from start of term ONLY ('V' => only results starting w 'V')
$("input#starts-with-term").autocomplete({
source: function(request, response) {
var rx = new RegExp("^" + $.ui.autocomplete.escapeRegex(request.term), "i");
response( $.grep(countries, function(val){ return rx.test(val) }) );
}
});
// // Sorts results starting w term first, then results containing term. ('V' => first results starting w 'V', then results containing 'V')
// SOURCE: <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10948911/>
$("input#starts-with-then-includes-term").autocomplete({
source: function(request, response) {
var term = $.ui.autocomplete.escapeRegex(request.term);
var rx = new RegExp("^" + term, "i");
var startsWith = $.grep(countries, function(val) {
return rx.test(val.label || val.value || val);
});
rx = new RegExp(term, "i");
var contains = $.grep(countries, function(val) {
return $.inArray(val, startsWith) < 0 &&
rx.test(val.label || val.value || val);
});
response(startsWith.concat(contains));
}
});
});
</script>
<style>
.main { margin: 1em auto; width: 60%; max-width: 800px; }
hr { margin: 2em 0; }
input { display: block; margin-bottom: 1em; font-size: 18px; width: 100%; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<section class="main">
<h1>Autocomplete Example - JQuery UI</h1>
<p><a href="https://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/">Source: jqueryui.com/autocomplete</a></p>
<hr/>
<h3>Enter Country Name:</h3>
<form autocomplete="off">
<input id="includes-term" type="text" name="country" placeholder="Search anywhere, don't sort (default)">
<input id="starts-with-term" type="text" name="country" placeholder="Search only first letters in name">
<input id="starts-with-then-includes-term" type="text" name="country" placeholder="Prioritize first letters (recommended)">
</form>
</section>
</body>
</html>
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