Working example of jeditable and autocomplete working together

Question

I see a lot of google posts on this but all seems to be talking about how this is in progress. Does anyone know of a working version of jeditable and autocomplete functionality

Answer 1

I had the need for the same functionality with jeditable and autocomplete from bassistance, for a list of emails separated by a comma. So, I changed the demo from Mika Tuupola and had it working like this:

$.editable.addInputType('autocomplete', {
    element: $.editable.types.text.element,
    plugin: function(settings, original) {
        $('input', this).autocomplete(settings.autocomplete.urlOrData,
            settings.autocomplete.options);
    }
});

And when you call jEditable you need to add the following:

$('.autocomplete').editable('http://www.example.com/save', {
    type: 'autocomplete',
    autocomplete: {
        urlOrData: ["Aberdeen", "Ada", "Adamsville"] , // can also be url: 'http://www.example.com/autocomplete',
        options: {
            multiple: true
        }
    }
});

The basic thing to understand here is that when you call $('input', this).autocomplete(...) you are actually applying the autocomplete plugin functionality to the editable input, and that's where you must pass the autocomplete options, via the settings object, which is the same as the settings you pass to jeditable.