jQuery ui autocomplete array should come form text()

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jQuery ui autocomplete array should:

var availableTags = [
    "How are you doing?",
    "What are you doing?",
    "What did you eat today?",
    "Be Yourself",
    "Try new things"
];

These variables should come from .text() question form a tag.

<a class="toggle FAQCategory" href="">How are you doing?</a>
<a class="toggle FAQCategory" href="">What are you doing?</a>
<a class="toggle FAQCategory" href="">What did you eat today?</a>
<a class="toggle FAQCategory" href="">Be Yourself</a>
<a class="toggle FAQCategory" href="">Try new things</a>

I hope you got what I want.

I don't want to static input in jQuery ui arrays it should come dynamically is per text of question a tag.

find fiddle

api.jquery.com/jQuery.inArray Refer this

hemnath mouli
– hemnath mouli

2015-07-17 14:04:40 +00:00
Commented Jul 17, 2015 at 14:04 — hemnath mouli
– hemnath mouli, Commented Jul 17, 2015 at 14:04

yong wu · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-17 14:12:46Z

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In my opinion, You can keep availableTags array. Do this,

var availableTags =[];
$(".FAQCategory").each(function(){
 availableTags.push($(this).text());
 });

so availableTags will iterate all anchor tags with class FAQCategory. Hope it helps.

answered Jul 17, 2015 at 14:12

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Dhiraj · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-17 14:23:39Z

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Since source requires data as an array and .map() returns an array and it can be used like this

source: function( request, response ) {
  // .map will iterate through each .FAQCategory element and return its text content 
  // and automatically pushes into an array
  var data = $('.FAQCategory').map(function(){ return $(this).text(); }); 
  response( data );
}

Updated demo http://jsfiddle.net/dhirajbodicherla/fdyz3whd/2/

edited Jul 17, 2015 at 14:23

answered Jul 17, 2015 at 14:07

Dhiraj

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