Wanted: Service What technology is this?

[philiporchardphiliporchard is verified member.]

Hi,

I'm trying to find out the name of web technology that is used on websites where a user starts to type a 'category' and as they type a list of words appear in order of relevance.

i.e they want to add their business to 'Teeth Whitening' and start typing 'teeth' and a range of suitable categories shows up for them to select from.

I'm sure this has got an 'industry specific name' but I can't even begin to guess what it's called... well, all my guesses have drawn a blank so far!

Thanks, Phil

 

[Retired_member41]

Isn't it just an Ajax database script.

 

[wbwb is verified member.]

AJAX?

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ajax_livesearch.asp

Wouldn't class myself as a coding expert though, so could be wrong.

 

[cvs]

Autocomplete

 

[philiporchardphiliporchard is verified member.]

I knew I should have asked on Acorn earlier - Autocomplete it is!

Many thanks!

 

[Ashton]

I would recommend the jquery UI autocomplete:

http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/

 

[Aegean]

This is quite a well written autosuggest script, good code, also gives the option of using images within the suggested results. Its useful if you have a product-based online shop, for example.

http://codecanyon.net/item/smart-su...em&WT.seg_1=search_item&WT.z_author=jskidmore

I hope thats of use to you.