I have a form that opens up in a dialog. One of the fields has autocomplete. All fields are built and server values are stored in them to pre-fill the form.
var mydiv = jQuery("#editform");
var $myform = jQuery("<form id='EditForm' method='post' action='index.php?option=com_component&task=edit'></form>");
...
var $mylabel10 = jQuery("<label for='EditSelect'>A label</label>");
var $myinput9 = jQuery("<input id='EditSelect' name='EditSelect' type='text' />");
var $mylabel9 = jQuery("<label for='EditSelect2'>Another label</label>");
var $myinput8 = jQuery("<input id='EditSelect2' name='add_path' value='" +path + "' />"); //path is a value passed in from the server
$myform.append(... $mylabel10, $myinput9, $mylabel9, $myinput8);
mydiv.append($myform);
//autocomplete code - order is important to have autocomplete go outside dialog
var available = [
{ label : 'foo', value : 'bar' },
{ label : 'xyz', value : 'abc' },
...
];
jQuery( "#EditSelect", mydiv ).autocomplete({
source: available,
focus : function(){ return false; }
})
.on( 'autocompleteselect', function( e, ui ){
var t = jQuery(this),
details = jQuery('#EditSelect2'),
label = ( e.type == 'autocompleteresponse' ? ui.content[0].label : ui.item.label ),
value = ( e.type == 'autocompleteresponse' ? ui.content[0].value : ui.item.value );
t.val( label );
details.val( value ); //doesn't update the form here?
return false;
});
// get reference to autocomplete element
var autoComplete = jQuery("#EditSelect", mydiv).autocomplete("widget");
var dialogOpts = {
modal: true,
autoOpen: true,
resizable: false,
width: 525,
height: 'auto',
title: 'Edit settings'
};
mydiv.dialog(dialogOpts);
autoComplete.insertAfter(mydiv.parent());
In this edit dialog is an autocomplete that when selected it should update the other input field (#EditSelect2
). Currently #EditSelect2 has the value from the server (in the variable path
).
When a new value is selected from the autocomplete I would expect the form updated because of this code: details.val( value );
. Right now the autocomplete works fine but the value from the server (path
) doesn't get updated after selecting a new choice in the autocomplete.
Hope this makes sense.
There is a small syntax error in your myinput8 statement:
should be:
Note the extra single quote at the end.