Is there a jQuery alternative to a drop-down box that could contain over 100,00 values?

I have a drop down box that has worked until n开发者_如何学Goow. New data in our system means that having a drop down box on a particular screen is no longer feasible, because it would contain tens or hundreds of thousands of values.

I still need to have just one value selected by the user. Is there a better control I can use for this? Such as something that would allow the user to reduce the potential dataset by typing the first few characters?

You could use one of the autocomplete plugins:

JQuery Autocomplete

Devbridge Autocomplete

jQuery Autocomplete Mod

You could use a plugin like FCBKcomplete. It generates a Facebook like search option.

I think one of the last yayQuery podcasts mentioned a website that had a listbox that was populated as the user scrolled through it.

This is a really good one: http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/

However, it can be a bit inflexible sometimes. I wrote an xa.js fork of it from scratch at: https://github.com/skippychalmers/xa-chosen