awesomplete

Awesomplete

https://projects.verou.me/awesomplete/

Awesomplete is an ultra lightweight, customizable, simple autocomplete widget with zero dependencies, built with modern standards for modern browsers.

Installation

There are a few ways to obtain the needed files. Here are 2 of them:

1. CDN server

https://cdnjs.com/libraries/awesomplete

2. Another way to get up and running is by using yarn or npm:

yarn add awesomplete

npm install awesomplete --save

More information about the npm package can be found here.

Basic Usage

Before you try anything, you need to include awesomplete.base.css (required), optionally awesomplete.theme.css (the default look), and awesomplete.js in your page, via the usual tags:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="awesomplete.base.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="awesomplete.theme.css" />
<script src="awesomplete.js" async></script>

Then you can add an Awesomplete widget by adding the following input tag:

<input class="awesomplete"
       data-list="Ada, Java, JavaScript, Brainfuck, LOLCODE, Node.js, Ruby on Rails" />

Add class="awesomplete" for it to be automatically processed (you can still specify many options via HTML attributes) Otherwise you can instantiate with a few lines of JS code, which allow for more customization.

There are many ways to link an input to a list of suggestions. The simple example above could have also been made with the following markup, which provides a nice native fallback in case the script doesn’t load:

<input class="awesomplete" list="mylist" />
<datalist id="mylist">
	<option>Ada</option>
	<option>Java</option>
	<option>JavaScript</option>
	<option>Brainfuck</option>
	<option>LOLCODE</option>
	<option>Node.js</option>
	<option>Ruby on Rails</option>
</datalist>

Or the following, if you don’t want to use a <datalist>, or if you don’t want to use IDs (since any selector will work in data-list):

<input class="awesomplete" data-list="#mylist" />
<ul id="mylist">
	<li>Ada</li>
	<li>Java</li>
	<li>JavaScript</li>
	<li>Brainfuck</li>
	<li>LOLCODE</li>
	<li>Node.js</li>
	<li>Ruby on Rails</li>
</ul>

There are multiple customizations and properties able to be instantiated within the JS. Libraries and definitions of the properties are available in the Links below.

Options

JS Property	HTML Attribute	Description	Value	Default
list	data-list	Where to find the list of suggestions.	Array of strings, HTML element, CSS selector (no groups, i.e. no commas), String containing a comma-separated list of items	N/A
minChars	data-minchars	Minimum characters the user has to type before the autocomplete popup shows up.	Number	2
maxItems	data-maxitems	Maximum number of suggestions to display.	Number	10
autoFirst	data-autofirst	Should the first element be automatically	Boolean	false
listLabel	data-listlabel	Denotes a label to be used as aria-label on the generated autocomplete list.	String	Results List

License

Awesomplete is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE file for details.

Links

The official site for the library is at https://projects.verou.me/awesomplete/.

Documentation for the API and other topics is at https://projects.verou.me/awesomplete/#api.

Created by Lea Verou and other fantastic contributors.