jQuery Autocomplete order of results

Question

I am using the jQuery-autocomplete plugin to get suggestions for completion of the input string using an AJAX call to a server. Also, the server takes care of returning the resu

Answer 1

Since there's no sortResults options in current build of jQuery Autocomplete plugin, I had to search another solution to this problem and found out the only reason the plugin is sorting result is that server response is being normalized everytime it's not a pure array with objects {label: ..., value: ...}.

Considering PHP as a language of your use, json_encode(array_values($your_array)); should do the trick.