text area with auto fill

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Hi guys is there any plug ins or code to create an autofill textarea of textbox.. Provided the autofill words must appear only if such similar words exist in table...

For example if i have a table with field Description. Let it contain value Severe Headache. Now when i type S in the textarea i need to create an auto fill with word Severe since its in the DB

Posted 2-Jun-12 8:55am

Arjun Menon U.K

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Tim Corey · Answer 1 · 2012-06-02T08:59:00

What I would suggest would be to use jQuery to perform the autocomplete for you using data from the database. Here is an example of how to do that:

http://www.jensbits.com/2010/03/29/jquery-ui-autocomplete-widget-with-php-and-mysql/[^]

Here is a Stack Overflow question that involves doing this as well. Some of the information provided is very useful:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5305294/jquery-autocomplete-mysql-php[^]