Monday, November 3, 2008

Custom AutoComplete 2: AutoComplete with Image

Following the approach from the last article, we can use the same one to build an AjaxControlToolkit AutoComplete with image or other plug-in elements in front of each item in CompletedList. Every word is in the below code.







<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
        <ajaxToolkit:ToolkitScriptManager runat="server" ID="ScriptManager1" />

           <asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="myTextBox" Width="300" autocomplete="off" />
            <ajaxToolkit:AutoCompleteExtender
                runat="server"  OnClientPopulated="onClientPopulated" OnClientItemSelected="itemSelected"
                BehaviorID="AutoCompleteEx"
                ID="autoComplete1"
                TargetControlID="myTextBox"
                ServicePath="AutoComplete.asmx"
                ServiceMethod="GetCompletionList3"
                MinimumPrefixLength="2"
                CompletionInterval="1000"

                CompletionSetCount="8"
                CompletionListCssClass="autocomplete_completionListElement"
                CompletionListItemCssClass="autocomplete_listItem"
                CompletionListHighlightedItemCssClass="autocomplete_highlightedListItem"
                DelimiterCharacters=";, :">
               
            </ajaxToolkit:AutoCompleteExtender>

    </form>
       <script type="text/javascript">
function itemSelected(ev)
{

    var index=$find("AutoCompleteEx")._selectIndex;
    if(index!=-1)
    $find("AutoCompleteEx").get_element().value=$find("AutoCompleteEx").get_completionList().childNodes[index]._value;

}
function onClientPopulated(sender,e)
{

    var comletionList=$find("AutoCompleteEx").get_completionList();
    for(i=0;i<comletionList.childNodes.length;i++)
    {   
        var _value=comletionList.childNodes[i]._value;       
        var text=_value[0];
        var moreText=_value[1];
        var imgeUrl= _value[2];
        comletionList.childNodes[i]._value=text;
        comletionList.childNodes[i].innerHTML="<table><tr><td><img src="+imgeUrl+" /></td><td>"+text+"<br />"+moreText+"</td></tr></table>";

    }
   
}




</script>
</body>


Web Method:


[WebMethod]
    public string[] GetCompletionList3(string prefixText, int count)
    {
        JavaScriptSerializer jss = new JavaScriptSerializer();
        List<string> items = new List<string>(3);
        for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
        {
            object[] item = new object[] { prefixText + "text"+i.ToString(), "moreText","images/demo.gif" };
            items.Add(jss.Serialize(item));
        }
        return items.ToArray();
    }

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

how can i make with MS-sql auto complete

Vince Xu said...

To Anonymous:
You have to use web service or pagemethod to access the database and fetch the data to the autoComplete

Anonymous said...

Thanks its working with database.but how can i resize image size.

Anonymous said...

Everything is working perfect.Just i need CSS Style like facebook auto suggest.

Thanks

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Anonymous said...

Hi Vince,
When using the example with JavaScriptSerializer, it does not seem to deserialize properly and as a result i see the value coming in full json notation enclosed between "[" brackets.
Do you know how to work around this?
Thanks

Techy Anky said...

Hi Vince,

Just like you placed an image inside the list item I need to place a button inside the ListItem. I did this much by appending an input tag to the innerHTML.
And then on the client side click event of the button I have to call a javascript function.
The problem is that "The moment I click the button the autocomplete list vanishes and no button's click event does not fire"

Can anyone help me ?

Anonymous said...

Hi Vince,
just write:
var _value = JSON.parse(comletionList.childNodes[i]._value);