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It occurs to me that I didn't specify much about my environment. I'm using PHP + MySQL to do my searching, and hoping for AJAX to make it a bit more dynamic. I don't have and am not at all familiar with Ruby on Rails, so I'm mostly hoping for a lightweight JavaScript approach. I did download the Scriptaculous framework/library which I thought might do the trick, but I've not figured out a way to make that work. (It seems to be more into regular auto-completion rather than narrowing the results display. Ken Ken Irwin wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm looking for what ought to be a straightfoward and easily-available > code example to copy from: an html form that narrows its search > results on the fly based on user input. I've had no trouble finding > form-autocomplete functions that help the user find a search term, but > I'm looking for something a little different. I want: > > 1. The textbox up here; user types content and the content of #2 > narrows accordingly > ---- > 2. A separate div with some fairly complicated entries based on the > search results down here in a separate div > > Does anyone have some straightforward code for this? (I'm fairly > certain that Ch. 4 of /Ajax for dummies/ had a Google-search example > of this, but the sample code I downloaded for that a year ago has > ceased functioning, and I don't have the book in my possession right > now to re-download that book's examples. > > And likewise: any favorite Ajax sites that give lots of examples + > code? I'm finding that to be less prevalent than I'd imagined... > > Thanks! > Ken > > > -- > Ken Irwin > Reference Librarian > Thomas Library, Wittenberg University -- Ken Irwin Reference Librarian Thomas Library, Wittenberg University