Displaying suggestions in input box

[Ellen Schlechter]

Or does anyone know what components might have been used?

[EJLD]

hi there, not sure to understand your question.
you shall look for the jquery autocomplete feature.
it requires a special library as dependency,
use the input component.
With some code, you can bring up the suggestions as an itemList.
good luck !

[Ellen Schlechter]

I just wanted to know the components used. I have the input but I don't want the list of suggestions to take up too much space but I can't get it to be mini. I also like the format that they used in the example above but I don't know how to accomplish it. I know how to populate whatever list I decide to use but I don't know which components will get me what I want if that makes any sense.

[Jafet Ramirez]

Hi! How about this for suggestions from an actual database table?

[Illya Stepanov]

Hi -

Please specify your question with more details.

[Jafet Ramirez]

Hello!

I wish to create suggestions for end users when they are entering characters as input.

The suggestions should come from a collection. In the apps database.

[Evgene Karachevtsev]

Hello Jafet,

Unfortunately your issue is still not clear for us. Could you please clarify what have you tried and what exactly does not work?

[Jafet Ramirez]

Apologies, will be try something else

[EJLD]

in fact, i made something similar to what your are aiming at.
what I did is :
0/ on page load, a distinct query retrieves the contents of a table field and places it into a localstorage,
1/ the user keys a character in a input control,
2/ on keyup it fires a function that walk through the localstorage and retrieves words (your suggestions) with the matching character(s) (using .indexOf(...) )
3/ the sorted result is enriched with html tags to make a list of words,
4/ then the html string is placed into an html component slidingDown nxt to the input control (using getElementByID('myHTMLcomponent').innerhtml = myList)
5/ on word click (using 'span') it fires a function that will place the clicked word into the input box.

it works quite fine and can always be improved. /span

[Jafet Ramirez]

That sounds interesting, I'll work on it and let you know how it comes out!