How to return jquery autocomplete result to the separate div?
The appendTo
option does indeed work as expected, and if you inspect at the DOM, the <ul>
results element will be attached to the element. However, due to absolute positioning generated by jQueryUI, the list still appears directly under the <input>
.
That said, you can override the internal _renderItem
to directly append results to a completely different element, for example:
HTML
<input id="autocomplete"/>
<div class="test">Output goes here:<br/><ul></ul></div>
JavaScript
$('input').autocomplete({
search: function(event, ui) {
$('.test ul').empty();
},
source: ["something", "something-else"]
}).data('autocomplete')._renderItem = function(ul, item) {
return $('<li/>')
.data('item.autocomplete', item)
.append(item.value)
.appendTo($('.test ul'));
};
I have also created a demo to demonstrate this. Please note that the latest jQuery library has not had jQueryUI tested against it fully, so I am using the previous version which allows me to select to include jQueryUI directly with the jsFiddle options.
<div class="test">Output goes here:<br/></div>
<script>
$("input#autocomplete").autocomplete({
source: ["something", "something-else"],
appendTo: ".text",
position: { my: "left top", at: "left bottom", of: ".test" }
// other options here
});
</script>
I needed more control over where to put the data, so this is how I went about it:
$("#input").autocomplete({
minLength: 3,
source: [
"ActionScript",
"AppleScript",
"Asp"
],
response: function(event, ui) {
console.log(ui.content);
// put the content somewhere
},
open: function(event, ui) {
// close the widget
$(this).autocomplete('close');
}
});