Comments on: Using the jQuery Autocomplete Plugin with Django

By: Sally

Sally — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:44:56 +0000

Hi there, thanks for posting this up. I got most of it to work. One problem though...

It stops refining the results after the initial lookup. For example:

If I have 4 data points: Cars, Cart, Cartoon, Cat,

And I set the len(value) >2,

query = car, searchresults: cars, cart, cartoon (great!!)

then I keep typing

query = cart, searchresults: cars, cart, cartoon (not so great!!)

Any ideas?

Thanks beforehand.

By: Uroš

Uroš — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:34:45 +0000

Thank you man. The best and quick tutorial how to integrate auto-compete in django.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:51:59 +0000

@Daniel, you could probably use the Media class in the form class http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/media/

or as a widget similar to this http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1097/

By: Trey

Trey — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:50:07 +0000

@David – No, there’s nothing fancy going on there. I don’t know why that wouldn’t work for you.

By: David Avellaneda

David Avellaneda — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:40:28 +0000

I’ve being trying to use this example, but, the plugin doesn’t seem to support the options: dataType and parse. Did you do another adjustment?

By: Daniel Nyström

Daniel Nyström — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:03:20 +0000

Is there any way to attach the javascript code into the Form class? It would be a really nice way to make ajax forms. Maybe even put it into the widget itself?

By: bayo opadeyi

bayo opadeyi — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:00:32 +0000

I already do something like this for my auto-complete. I was wondering if I could make an autocomplete widget that holds all the javascript and all. the view part seems to be the issue, since you need a request object that the widget knows nothing about. I wonder what approach you will take to make this work