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update textfield automatically as typing?

         

furtivefelon

7:33 pm on Nov 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

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hi, does anyone know of any site that shows how to update the text field automatically as one types? such as the case in google suggest: [google.com...]

thanks alot :D

Scally_Ally

9:57 am on Nov 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

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thats pretty cool that...

The only way that i could think of doing it is with a database and a page submission every key press, but it isnt done like that..

I would really like to know how to do this too.

Bernard Marx

11:50 am on Nov 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



The auto-complete part is pretty simple, if the data is already available. The seemless server querying - done with an XHMHTTPRequest - is tricky to the max. There are now quite a few articles on the subject:

[google.se...]