TextBoxFor Autocomplete MVC

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In my view i have

HTML

@Html.TextBoxFor(per =&gt; per.Hospital, new { style = "width:220px", @maxlength = "50", data_autocomplete = Url.Action("HospitalList", "Person") })

My jquery is

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function () {        
    $('input[data_autocomplete]').each(function () {
        var url = $(this).data('autocomplete');
        $(this).autocomplete({
            source: function (request, response) {
                $.getJSON(url, {
                    term: request.term
                }, response);
            }
        });
    });
});

And a created a new Action result

public ActionResult HospitalList(string term)
    {
        List&lt;string&gt; result = new List&lt;string&gt;();
        result.Add("Hospital 1");
        result.Add("NYUMC");
        result.Add("Christ");
        result.Add("Bellevue");
        result.Add("NewYork-Presbyterian");
        result.Add("North Central Bronx Hospital");            

        return Json(result , JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
    }

now where am i going wromg. All I see a a text box , no behavior of auto complete. Should i be including any jquery library for it to work

Posted 5-Apr-13 9:39am

Neha Ojha

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-04-05T10:32:00

This is because you have wrong autocomplete source, which is supposed to be an array, or a string or a function. In your case, the response function lacks return statement which is a main part defining the autocomplete data.

Please see: http://api.jqueryui.com/autocomplete/#option-source[^].

Pay attention for the sample "Using a custom source callback to match only the beginning of terms".

See also: http://api.jqueryui.com/autocomplete/[^].

—SA