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Created January 17, 2017 17:26
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Example using Twitter's Typeahead library
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://twitter.github.io/typeahead.js/releases/latest/typeahead.bundle.js"></script>
<style type="text/css">
/* These class names can me specified in the Typeahead options hash. I use the defaults here. */
.tt-suggestion {
border: 1px dotted gray;
padding: 4px;
min-width: 100px;
}
.tt-cursor {
background-color: rgb(255,253,189);
}
/* These classes are used in the suggestion template */
.itemStageName {
font-size: 110%;
}
.itemLegalName {
font-size: 110%;
color: rgb(51,42,206);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>Type something here. A good search term might be 'C'.</p>
<div id="prefetch">
<input class="typeahead" type="text" placeholder="Name">
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var actors = new Bloodhound({
// Each row is an object, not a single string, so we have to modify the
// default datum tokenizer. Pass in the list of object fields to be
// searchable.
datumTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.obj.nonword(
'StageName','AKA1','AKA2','LegalName','SoundEx'
),
queryTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.whitespace,
// URL points to a json file that contains an array of actor JSON objects
// Visit the link to see details
prefetch: 'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/tag/81e4450de8eca805f436b72e6d7d1274/raw/792b3376f63f89d86e10e78d387109f0ad7903fd/dummy_actors.json'
});
// passing in `null` for the `options` arguments will result in the default
// options being used
$('#prefetch .typeahead').typeahead(
{
highlight: true
}, {
name: 'actors',
source: actors,
templates: {
empty: "<div class=\"empty-message\">No matches found.</div>",
// This is simply a function that accepts an object.
// You may wish to consider Handlebars instead.
suggestion: function(obj) {
return '<div class="actorItem">'
+ '<span class="itemStageName">'+obj.StageName+"</span>"
+ ', <em>legally</em> <span class="itemLegalName">'+obj.LegalName+"</span>"
}
//suggestion: Handlebars.compile('<div><strong>{{value}}</strong> – {{year}}</div>')
},
display: "LegalName" // name of object key to display when selected
// Instead of display, you can use the 'displayKey' option too:
// displayKey: function(actor) {
// return actor.LegalName;
// }
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
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