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AutoComplete implementation points to an online script that serves a data as delimited plain text.

 

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<head>
<title>Basic Remote Data</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="yui_2.7.0b-lib/fonts/fonts-min.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="yui_2.7.0b-lib/autocomplete/assets/skins/sam/autocomplete.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui_2.7.0b-lib/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui_2.7.0b-lib/connection/connection-min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui_2.7.0b-lib/animation/animation-min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui_2.7.0b-lib/datasource/datasource-min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui_2.7.0b-lib/autocomplete/autocomplete-min.js"></script>
<style type="text/css">
#myAutoComplete {
    width:25em; /* set width here or else widget will expand to fit its container */
    padding-bottom:2em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body class=" yui-skin-sam">
<h1>Basic Remote Data</h1>
AutoComplete implementation points to an online script that serves a data as delimited plain text. 
<h3>Search our database:</h3>
<div id="myAutoComplete">
  <input id="myInput" type="text">
  <div id="myContainer"></div>
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
YAHOO.example.BasicRemote = function() {
    // Use an XHRDataSource
    var oDS = new YAHOO.util.XHRDataSource("yui_2.7.0b-assets/autocomplete-assets/php/ysearch_flat.php");
    // Set the responseType
    oDS.responseType = YAHOO.util.XHRDataSource.TYPE_TEXT;
    // Define the schema of the delimited results
    oDS.responseSchema = {
        recordDelim: "\n",
        fieldDelim: "\t"
    };
    // Enable caching
    oDS.maxCacheEntries = 5;

    // Instantiate the AutoComplete
    var oAC = new YAHOO.widget.AutoComplete("myInput", "myContainer", oDS);
    
    return {
        oDS: oDS,
        oAC: oAC
    };
}();
</script>
</body>

   
  








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