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Usability in Autocomplete

in Using jQuery UI • 10 years ago

Previously I where using 'jQuery Autocomplete plugin 1.1' there were some issues in IE with the auto fill so I migrated to 'jQuery UI 1.8.16'. Issues were resolved in this but there seems to be some other usability problems.

Lets say when some one types some characters in input area suggests are provided but the first result in it is not selected by default.
Navigating the suggestions using arrow key, When I go beyond the last suggestion it supposed to go to the beginning right but it didn't happens. I believe it should be cyclic manner.

I dono whether I'm missing something. I done my codding based on the study from here http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete

Regards,

Adithyan

Replies(3)

rdworth

Re: Usability in Autocomplete

10 years ago

Lets say when some one types some characters in input area suggests are provided but the first result in it is not selected by default.

See the autoFocus option: http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Autocomplete#option-autoFocus

Navigating the suggestions using arrow key, When I go beyond the last suggestion it supposed to go to the beginning right but it didn't happens. I believe it should be cyclic manner.

Press the down arrow key one more time. You'll see that it first cycles back to the input and then continues the cycle at the top of the list. This is so you don't have to press the up arrow key as many times to get back up to the input.

Adithyan.R