Limit results in jQuery UI Autocomplete

Question

I am using jQuery UI Autocomplete.

 $("#task").autocomplete({
     max:10,
     minLength:3,
     source: myarray
 });          

The max parameter doesn't work and I still get more than 10 results. Am I missing something?

Answer 1

Here is the proper documentation for the jQueryUI widget. There isn't a built-in parameter for limiting max results, but you can accomplish it easily:

$("#auto").autocomplete({
    source: function(request, response) {
        var results = $.ui.autocomplete.filter(myarray, request.term);

        response(results.slice(0, 10));
    }
});

You can supply a function to the source parameter and then call slice on the filtered array.

Here's a working example: http://jsfiddle.net/andrewwhitaker/vqwBP/