<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html> <head>
<title>Ajax Auto Complete</title>
<style type="text/css">
.mouseOut { background: #708090; color: #FFFAFA; }
.mouseOver { background: #FFFAFA; color: #000000; }
</style> <script type="text/javascript">
var xmlHttp;
var completeDiv;
var inputField;
var nameTable;
var nameTableBody;
function createXMLHttpRequest() {
if (window.ActiveXObject) {
xmlHttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); }
else if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
}
function initVars() {
inputField = document.getElementByIdx_x("names");
nameTable = document.getElementByIdx_x("name_table");
completeDiv = document.getElementByIdx_x("popup");
nameTableBody = document.getElementByIdx_x("name_table_body");
}
function findNames() {
initVars();
if (inputField.value.length > 0) {
createXMLHttpRequest();
var url = "AutoCompleteServlet?names=" + escape(inputField.value);
xmlHttp.open("GET", url, true);
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = callback;
xmlHttp.send(null);
} else {
clearNames();
}
}
function callback() {
if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4) {
if (xmlHttp.status == 200) {
var name =xmlHttp.responseXML.getElementsByTagName_r("name")[0].firstChild.data;
setNames(xmlHttp.responseXML.getElementsByTagName_r("name"));
} else if (xmlHttp.status == 204){
clearNames(); } } }
function setNames(the_names) {
clearNames();
var size = the_names.length;
setOffsets();
var row, cell, txtNode;
for (var i = 0; i < size; i++) {
var nextNode = the_names[i].firstChild.data;
row = document.createElement_x("tr");
cell = document.createElement_x("td");
cell.onmouseout = function() {this.className='mouseOver';};
cell.onmouseover = function() {this.className='mouseOut';};
cell.setAttribute("bgcolor", "#FFFAFA");
cell.setAttribute("border", "0");
cell.onclick = function() { populateName(this); } ;
txtNode = document.createTextNode(nextNode);
cell.appendChild_xss(txtNode);
row.appendChild_xss(cell);
nameTableBody.appendChild_xss(row);
}
}
function setOffsets() {
var end = inputField.offsetWidth;
var left = calculateOffsetLeft(inputField);
var top = calculateOffsetTop(inputField) + inputField.offsetHeight;
completeDiv.style.border = "black 1px solid";
completeDiv.style.left = left + "px";
completeDiv.style.top = top + "px";
nameTable.style.width = end + "px";
}
function calculateOffsetLeft(field) {
return calculateOffset(field, "offsetLeft"); }
function calculateOffsetTop(field) {
return calculateOffset(field, "offsetTop"); }
function calculateOffset(field, attr) {
var offset = 0;
while(field) {
offset += field[attr];
field = field.offsetParent;
}
return offset;
}
function populateName(cell) {
inputField.value = cell.firstChild.nodeValue;
clearNames(); }
function clearNames() {
var ind = nameTableBody.childNodes.length;
for (var i = ind - 1; i >= 0 ; i--) {
nameTableBody.removeChild(nameTableBody.childNodes[i]);
}
completeDiv.style.border = "none";
}
</script> </head> <body>
<h1>Ajax Auto Complete Example</h1> Names:
<input type="text" size="20" id="names" onkeyup="findNames();" style="height:20;"/>
<div style="position:absolute;" id="popup">
<table id="name_table" bgcolor="#FFFAFA" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"/>
<tbody id="name_table_body"></tbody> </table> </div>
</body>
</html>
