JarCastingui-autocomplete directive v0.6.1
Intend to replace Select2!
AngularJS Autocomplete Wrapper for the jQuery UI Autocomplete Widget - v1.11.2
Requirements
Testing
Installation options
bower install ui-autocomplete --save
Usage
Load the script files in your application like this:
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/jquery/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/jquery-ui/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/angular/angular.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/angular-ui/autocomplete.js"></script>
Add the autocomplete module as a dependency to your application module:
var myAppModule = angular.module('MyApp', ['ui.autocomplete'])
Apply the directive to your input elements:
<input type="text" ng-model="modelObj" ui-autocomplete="myOption">
ui-autocomplete option
Options
All the options must be passed through the directive. There have added 5 options besides official options:
- html If true, you can use html string or DOM object in sourceData.label
- focusOpen If true, the suggestion menu auto open with all source data when element focus
- onlySelectValid If true, element value must be selected from suggestion menu, otherwise set validity of 'onlyselect' to false
- groupLabel html string or DOM object, it is used to group suggestion result, it can't be seleted
- outHeight number, it is used to adjust suggestion menu' css style "max-height", and you would set css "overflow-y", see demo.
You can config options like this:
myAppModule.controller('MyController', function ($scope, $compile) {
/* config object */
$scope.myOption = {
options: {
html: true,
focusOpen: true,
onlySelectValid: true,
source: function (request, response) {
var data = [
"Asp",
"BASIC",
"C",
"C++",
"Clojure",
"COBOL",
"ColdFusion",
"Erlang",
"Fortran",
"Groovy",
"Haskell",
"Java",
"JavaScript",
"Lisp",
"Perl",
"PHP",
"Python",
"Ruby",
"Scala",
"Scheme"
];
data = $scope.myOption.methods.filter(data, request.term);
if (!data.length) {
data.push({
label: 'not found',
value: ''
});
}
// add "Add Language" button to autocomplete menu bottom
data.push({
label: $compile('<a class="btn btn-link ui-menu-add" ng-click="addLanguage()">Add Language</a>')($scope),
value: ''
});
response(data);
}
},
methods: {}
};
});
// in html template
<input type="text" ng-model="modelObj" ui-autocomplete="myOption">
All official options Here.
Methods
Autocomplete methods will be added to $scope.myOption.methods after Autocomplete initialized. There also have added 2 methods:
- filter filter html labels besides official methods
- clean use to empty ngModal object
You can invoke methods like this:
$scope.myOption.methods.search('term');
data = $scope.myOption.methods.filter(data, request.term);
$scope.myOption.methods.clean();
All official methods Here.
Events
Autocomplete events will be emitted just like official events triggered.
You can bind events to initialize the autocomplete like this:
$scope.myOption.events = {
change: function( event, ui ) {
// do something
},
close: function( event, ui ) {
// do something
},
//...other event handlers
};
All official events Here.
Working with ng-model
The ui-autocomplete directive plays nicely with ng-model.
Not only primitive type ngModel, you can also use object type ngModel! There must have a property 'value' in object type ngModel.
A object type ngModel like this:
modelObj = {
id: 'ae15581f-d8e1-48e8-9d6d-b5989ae77ce5',
name: 'JavaScript',
value: 'JavaScript',
// some other property
};
Documentation for the autocomplete
The autocomplete works alongside of all the documentation represented here