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Question

Hey guys, there is a form where the user select some of his friends and I\'m curious on how I can implement a list that searches simultaneously while the user is typing a friend

Answer 1

I've implemented this a couple of times, it is not that difficult to achieve decent results and the basic idea that I used was...

1) create an input box.

2) create a div positioned directly underneath the input box.

3) create a jquery keypress handler. if there are more than x characters typed, ajax request.

4) loop through the results, and if they exist, append result divs to the result box.

5) show the result box.

I can dig up some example code if you would like. Not sure what you are talking about with the select multiple, but you could keep a variable of selected, and change the color of the result div when it is clicked on, this way many results can be selected and then processed later.