adding additional jQuery autocomplete functionality
Hello to everybody,
I'm very new to jQuery and jQuery's plugins. I'm currently working on using the autocomplete plugin. So far it works great but I would like to add additional functionality. What I mean by that is I would like to have other elements in the DOM change whenever a different item in the dropdown list is selected.
For example:
I have my server side code returning a JSON object with several values like the following:
DeviceID, DeviceName, DeviceGroup, DeviceCategory, DeviceClient ... etc. etc.
I would like the autocomplete plugin to populate the dropdownlist with, lets say, the DeviceName but populate other DOM objects with the other values, like DeviceGroup, DeviceCategory etc etc.
As I have mentioned, I'm a total beginner to jQuery and its plugin system. Reading through some posts online and several books I have on jQuery, I'm willing to bet that it can be done by adding / changing some of the autocomplete plugin code via the
$.fn.extend({...
result: ...
},
But since I'm so new to this, I'm having a very hard time understanding exactly what is happening within the code. I would greatly appreciate if somebody could point me in the right direction.
Thanks to all in advance!
William