In the last few days I’ve started using the jQuery JavaScript library. To experiment with this great piece of software I’ve decided to implement an AJAX auto-complete feature. jQuery makes remote scripting a piece of cake and that led me to spend more time coding additional functionalities for the auto-complete field. In this post I’ll explain how to use my auto-complete field and in a following post I’ll explain all the code. So let’s start!

Before continuing let’s see how the auto-complete field looks like. Start typing some color name in the input field bellow to see how it works: