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Ken, You might want to look at the autocomplete code in Scriblio. The JS is part of the theme: http://svn.scriblio.net/theme/trunk/scripts/ The server side: http://svn.scriblio.net/plugin/trunk/suggest.php And you can actually try it here: http://nov9.scriblio.net/browse/ About jquery.suggest.js: I had to modify Peter Vulgaris' excellent class. The mods are commented but I should add some notes to the header. --Casey On Dec 17, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Ken Irwin wrote: > 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