Marco Polo

Applied to form fields, it allows the users to enter just a few characters and have entry alternatives showed in a drop-down panel below the field itself.

Features:

• Cache and buffer
• Remembers selection
• Require selection
• Overlabel support
• Complete styling control
• Callbacks for all major events
• Maintained
• Documented

What is new in this release:

• The data option can now be a function that returns an object, allowing for dynamic values that are computed for every request.
• Fixed an issue where the cursor would be moved to the end of the input after every keyup, making it difficult to edit existing input, particularly in Google Chrome.
• Fixed certain browsers (like older versions of IE) trying to display the results list when there were no results.

What is new in version 1.7.5:

• Marco Polo is now listed on the jQuery Plugin Registry.

What is new in version 1.7.4:

• Various small code tweaks to comply with stricter JSHint options.
• The packaged, production-ready scripts are now within the build directory. The README includes more details, but there are now minified and unminified versions of the combined and individual scripts.
• Added installation details for Bower to the README.

What is new in version 1.7.3:

• Marco Polo can now be installed with BOWER.

What is new in version v1.7.1:

• Fixed a bug where selected would cause onSelect to fire a second time if a new input value was set.
• Fixed a bug that caused an error to be thrown in some cases when a label wasn't specified.

What is new in version v1.7.0:

• Added highlight option for whether to automatically highlight an item when the results list is displayed. Usually it's the first item, but it could be the previously selected item if compare is specified. Default is true, so it works the same as before being configurable.
• Added submitOnEnter option for whether to allow the browser's default behavior of submitting the form on ENTER. Default is false, so it works the same as before being configurable.
• The TAB key now selected the currently highlighted item. Much the same as the ENTER key, except for the default browser behavior of moving to the next focusable element.

What is new in version v1.6.0:

• Added full WAI-ARIA support.
• Added selected method for retrieving the currently selected data.
• Updated jQuery UI Widget dependency to version 1.8.21.
• Bumped the required jQuery version from 1.4.2 to 1.4.3 due to the use of $.now() internally.

What is new in version v1.5.1:

• Fixed an IE 7/8 bug that caused an Object expected error whenever the _trigger method was called, which is used internally to trigger events.

What is new in version v1.4.1:

• The input's standard value attribute is now used as the selected value when Marco Polo is initialized. This is in addition to support for the data-selected attribute that was added in v1.4.0. See Setting an Initial Value for further details.

Requirements:

• JavaScript enabled on client side
• jQuery UI Widget 1.8.14 or higher
• jQuery 1.4.2 or higher