Autocomplete: Added demo of scrollable results. Fixes #5815 - Autocomplete: document and demo a scrolling menu.

scottgonzalez · scottgonzalez · commit 5e3755af8aa1 · 2010-07-19T14:17:44.000-04:00
diff --git a/demos/autocomplete/index.html b/demos/autocomplete/index.html
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <h4>Examples</h4>
 			<li><a href="remote.html">Remote datasource</a></li>
 			<li><a href="remote-with-cache.html">Remote with caching</a></li>
 			<li><a href="remote-jsonp.html">Remote JSONP datasource</a></li>
+			<li><a href="maxheight.html">Scrollable results (max-height)</a></li>
 			<li><a href="combobox.html">Combobox</a></li>
 			<li><a href="custom-data.html">Custom data and display</a></li>
 			<li><a href="xml.html">XML data parsed once</a></li>
diff --git a/demos/autocomplete/maxheight.html b/demos/autocomplete/maxheight.html
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+	<meta charset="UTF-8" />
+	<title>jQuery UI Autocomplete Scrollable Results Demo</title>
+	<link type="text/css" href="../../themes/base/jquery.ui.all.css" rel="stylesheet" />
+	<script type="text/javascript" src="../../jquery-1.4.2.js"></script>
+	<script type="text/javascript" src="../../ui/jquery.ui.core.js"></script>
+	<script type="text/javascript" src="../../ui/jquery.ui.widget.js"></script>
+	<script type="text/javascript" src="../../ui/jquery.ui.position.js"></script>
+	<script type="text/javascript" src="../../ui/jquery.ui.autocomplete.js"></script>
+	<link type="text/css" href="../demos.css" rel="stylesheet" />
+	<style type="text/css">
+	.ui-autocomplete {
+		max-height: 100px;
+		overflow-y: auto;
+	}
+	/* 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 type="text/javascript">
+	$(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="demo">
+
+<div class="ui-widget">
+	<label for="tags">Tags: </label>
+	<input id="tags" />
+</div>
+
+</div><!-- End demo -->
+
+<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><!-- End demo-description -->
+
+</body>
+</html>
