Tuesday, 18 March 2014

JQuery AutoComplete box in ASP.NET

In this article I will explain what JQuery autocomplete extender with Example in asp.net

JQuery AutoComplete Extender:

AutoComplete is an ASP.NET with JQuery extender that can be attached to any TextBox control, and will associate that control with a popup panel to display words that begin with the prefix typed into the textbox.

The dropdown with candidate words supplied by a web service is positioned on the bottom left of the text box. 


Below is the Page design.

<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="head" runat="Server">
    <link href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.1/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
 <script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
SearchText();
});
function SearchText() {
$(".autosuggest").autocomplete({
source: function (request, response) {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
url: "SecoundPage.aspx/GetAutoCompleteData",
data: "{'username':'" + document.getElementById("<%= txtComponent.ClientID%>").value + "'}",
dataType: "json",
success: function (data) {
//JQuery autocomplete extender result data
response(data.d);
},
error: function (result) {
 alert("Error");
}
});
}
});
function JustTesting(str) {            
document.getElementById("content").innerHTML = '<b>Description :</b> ' + str.value;
</script>
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="cntMain" runat="Server">
<div class="demo">
<div class="ui-widget">
 <label for="tbAuto">Enter Component Name: </label>
<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtComponent" CssClass="autosuggest" Style="width: 600px;" />
           
<div id="content" height="30px" class="SelectRow1" align="left"></div>
</div>
</asp:Content>

JQuery Code:

 <script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
SearchText();
});
 function SearchText() {
$(".autosuggest").autocomplete({
source: function (request, response) {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
url: "SecoundPage.aspx/GetAutoCompleteData",
data: "{'username':'" + document.getElementById("<%= txtComponent.ClientID%>").value + "'}",
dataType: "json",
success: function (data) {
response(data.d);
},
error: function (result) {
alert("Error");
}
});
}
});
function JustTesting(str) {
 document.getElementById("content").innerHTML = '<b>Description :</b> ' + str.value;
  } 
 </script>

This is the function declaration of JSON format we are using this JSON function to call web methods using JQuery $.ajax() whenever we need to make Ajax call with JQuery then we will use JSON functions like as we mentioned in above format. Here typeContentType and dataType are same for all functions only urldata and success functions will vary based on our requirement.

URL: This is the path of our Webmethods

Data: we will pass parameters using this parameter if no parameters then we need to use data: "{}"

Success: Once our web method execution completed then success function will execute and return username matching’s

[WebMethod]

    public static List<string> GetAutoCompleteData(string username)
    {      
        SqlCommand drCommand;
        // SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["dbconnection"].ToString());
        SqlConnection conHiAll = new SqlConnection("server=LocalHost;database=DBName;uid=sa;pwd=gplhyd0;MultipleActiveResultSets=True");
        conHiAll.Open();
        drCommand = new SqlCommand("select Component_Desc from tbl1 where Component_Desc like '" + username + "%'", conHiAll);
        //drCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Name", prefixText);
        SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(drCommand);
        DataTable dt = new DataTable();
        da.Fill(dt);
        List<string> CountryNames = new List<string>();
        for (int i = 0; i < dt.Rows.Count; i++)
        {
            CountryNames.Add(dt.Rows[i][0].ToString());
        }
        return CountryNames;
    }


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