JavaScript: jQuery: Autocomplete Tutorial

Sometimes, before writing a plug-in your first step should really be to see if someone else has done it for you. The jQuery community has a vast array of plug-ins freely available for use – you can see them at the jQuery plug-ins site. There are also existing UI widgets available from the jQuery-UI project. In this tutorial, we're going to take a jQuery-UI widget and show you how to implement it – the autocomplete widget.