Build jQuery UI Autocomplete - Scrollable results in JavaScript

Description

The following code shows how to build jQuery UI Autocomplete - Scrollable results.

Example


<!-- Revised from demo code on http://jqueryui.com/ -->
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>jQuery UI Autocomplete - Scrollable results</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.10.4/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<link type="text/css" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.10.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<!--from www  . j a va2  s . co  m-->
<style>
.ui-autocomplete {
max-height: 100px;
overflow-y: auto;
/* prevent horizontal scrollbar */
overflow-x: hidden;
}
/* IE 6 doesn't support max-height
* we use height instead, but this forces the menu to always be this tall
*/
* html .ui-autocomplete {
height: 100px;
}
</style>
<script>
$(function() {
var availableTags = [
"ActionScript",
"AppleScript",
"Asp",
"BASIC",
"C",
"C++",
"Clojure",
"COBOL",
"ColdFusion",
"Erlang",
"Fortran",
"Groovy",
"Haskell",
"Java",
"JavaScript",
"Lisp",
"Perl",
"PHP",
"Python",
"Ruby",
"Scala",
"Scheme"
];
$( "#tags" ).autocomplete({
source: availableTags
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>

<div class="ui-widget">
<label for="tags">Tags: </label>
<input id="tags">
</div>

<div class="demo-description">
<p>When displaying a long list of options, you can simply set the max-height for the autocomplete menu to prevent the menu from growing too large. Try typing "a" or "s" above to get a long list of results that you can scroll through.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

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The code above generates the following result.

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