[jquery-ui] Limit results in jQuery UI Autocomplete

I am using jQuery UI Autocomplete.

 $("#task").autocomplete({
     max:10,
     minLength:3,
     source: myarray
 });          

The max parameter doesn't work and I still get more than 10 results. Am I missing something?

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The answer is


Here is the proper documentation for the jQueryUI widget. There isn't a built-in parameter for limiting max results, but you can accomplish it easily:

$("#auto").autocomplete({
    source: function(request, response) {
        var results = $.ui.autocomplete.filter(myarray, request.term);

        response(results.slice(0, 10));
    }
});

You can supply a function to the source parameter and then call slice on the filtered array.

Here's a working example: http://jsfiddle.net/andrewwhitaker/vqwBP/


In my case this works fine:

source:function(request, response){
    var numSumResult = 0;
    response(
        $.map(tblData, function(rowData) {
            if (numSumResult < 10) {
                numSumResult ++;
                return {
                    label:          rowData.label,
                    value:          rowData.value,
                }
            }
        })
    );
},

You can set the minlength option to some big value or you can do it by css like this,

.ui-autocomplete { height: 200px; overflow-y: scroll; overflow-x: hidden;}

here is what I used

.ui-autocomplete { max-height: 200px; overflow-y: auto; overflow-x: hidden;}

The overflow auto so the scroll bar will not show when it's not supposed to.


I could solve this problem by adding the following content to my CSS file:

.ui-autocomplete {
    max-height: 200px;
    overflow-y: auto;
    overflow-x: hidden;
}

jQuery allows you to change the default settings when you are attaching autocomplete to an input:

$('#autocomplete-form').autocomplete({
   maxHeight: 200, //you could easily change this maxHeight value
   lookup: array, //the array that has all of the autocomplete items
   onSelect: function(clicked_item){
      //whatever that has to be done when clicked on the item
   }
});

Same like "Jayantha" said using css would be the easiest approach, but this might be better,

.ui-autocomplete { max-height: 200px; overflow-y: scroll; overflow-x: hidden;}

Note the only difference is "max-height". this will allow the widget to resize to smaller height but not more than 200px


I've tried all the solutions above, but mine only worked on this way:

success: function (data) {
    response($.map(data.slice (0,10), function(item) {
    return {
    value: item.nome
    };
    }));
},

If the results come from a mysql query, it is more efficient to limit directly the mysql result:

select [...] from [...] order by [...] limit 0,10

where 10 is the max numbers of rows you want


Adding to Andrew's answer, you can even introduce a maxResults property and use it this way:

$("#auto").autocomplete({ 
    maxResults: 10,
    source: function(request, response) {
        var results = $.ui.autocomplete.filter(src, request.term);
        response(results.slice(0, this.options.maxResults));
    }
});

jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/vqwBP/877/

This should help code readability and maintainability!


I did it in following way :

success: function (result) {
response($.map(result.d.slice(0,10), function (item) {
return {
// Mapping to Required columns (Employee Name and Employee No)
label: item.EmployeeName,
value: item.EmployeeNo
}
}
));

Plugin: jquery-ui-autocomplete-scroll with scroller and limit results are beautiful

$('#task').autocomplete({
  maxShowItems: 5,
  source: myarray
});

There is no max parameter.

http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Autocomplete


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