How to return jquery autocomplete result to the separate div? - jquery-ui

Question

I've found here that to overwrite one of the autocomplete events. But can somebody please provide me with example how to do the same?

Answer 1

The appendTo option does indeed work as expected, and if you inspect at the DOM, the <ul> results element will be attached to the element. However, due to absolute positioning generated by jQueryUI, the list still appears directly under the <input>.
That said, you can override the internal _renderItem to directly append results to a completely different element, for example:
HTML
<input id="autocomplete"/>
<div class="test">Output goes here:<br/><ul></ul></div>
JavaScript
$('input').autocomplete({
search: function(event, ui) {
$('.test ul').empty();
},
source: ["something", "something-else"]
}).data('autocomplete')._renderItem = function(ul, item) {
return $('<li/>')
.data('item.autocomplete', item)
.append(item.value)
.appendTo($('.test ul'));
};
I have also created a demo to demonstrate this. Please note that the latest jQuery library has not had jQueryUI tested against it fully, so I am using the previous version which allows me to select to include jQueryUI directly with the jsFiddle options.

Answer 2

<div class="test">Output goes here:<br/></div>
<script>
$("input#autocomplete").autocomplete({
source: ["something", "something-else"],
appendTo: ".text",
position: { my: "left top", at: "left bottom", of: ".test" }
// other options here
});
</script>

Answer 3

I needed more control over where to put the data, so this is how I went about it:
$("#input").autocomplete({
minLength: 3,
source: [
"ActionScript",
"AppleScript",
"Asp"
],
response: function(event, ui) {
console.log(ui.content);
// put the content somewhere
},
open: function(event, ui) {
// close the widget
$(this).autocomplete('close');
}
});

Answer 4

hle's answer worked awesome for me and gives you more flexibility! Here is my test code that was modified by his answer:
$("#autocomplete").autocomplete({
minLength: 3,
source: ["something", "something-else"],
response: function(event, ui)
{
console.log(ui.content);
// put the content somewhere
},
open: function(event, ui)
{
// close the widget
$(this).autocomplete('close');
}
});

Answer 5

Although this question is pretty old but i got a pretty easy solution. No hack, nothing just in jQuery way:
Instead of autocomplete response function, just add response data in div on success
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#book-code-search").autocomplete({
minLength: 2,
delay: 500,
source: function (request, response) {
$.ajax( {
url: "server side path that returns json data",
data: { searchText: request.term, param2 : $("#type").val()},
type: "POST",
dataType: "json",
success: function( data ) {
$("#data-success").html(data.returnedData); //returnedData is json data return from server side response
/* response($.map(data, function (item) {
return {
label: item.FullDesc,
value: item.FullDesc
}
})) */
}
});
}
});
});
<link href="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<div id='data-success' style='color: green;'></div>
<input type='text' placeholder='Enter Book Code' id='book-code-search' />
<input type='hidden' id='type' value='book'>