lightweight alternative to jquery-ui autocomplete plugin? [closed]

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does anyone know of a lightweight alternative to the jquery-ui autocomplete plugin?

I'm not using any other jquery-ui components in the project (base lib is jquery 1.5.2). So dont feel I can justify adding 20k (minified) just for simple autocomplete on a single search field.

possible options so far are:

https://github.com/agarzola/jQueryAutocompletePlugin

http://code.google.com/p/jquery-autocomplete/

I dont want to roll my own plugin for such standard functionality .. surely there has to be a great solution out there already?

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Sorry but I believe that your research of alternatives will not pay off.

For the other alternatives that you suggested the minified weight is 14.52 kb (agarzola) and 10KB (jquery-autocomplete), so 20KB from the most tested and complete solution doesn't seems like too much to me.

I think you should pay more attention to other important aspects of each plugin instead of the size when the difference is so tiny. Even more in the case of autocomplete functionality, which will consume bandwidth on each automatic search, so I guess I would not use autocomplete if my first concern were the bandwidth.

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http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/autocomplete#Example ;)

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I've had reasonable luck with 'UFD' ( http://code.google.com/p/ufd/ ), the Unobtrusive Fast-filter Dropdown. It's not perfect, but it might meet your needs.

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yeah, Jquery UI is quiet chunky and is only worth using if you are going to use a bunch of plugins (draggable, resizable, etc. )

I've used : http://codeassembly.com/Unobtrusive-jQuery-autocomplete-plugin-with-json-key-value-support/ for my simple projects couple of times and I reckon its amazing.

you can also check this tutorial out http://return-true.com/2009/08/how-to-jquery-autocomplete/ but I think the first option is sufficient

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Have you tried Ninja UI?