jquery autocomplete for keypress event

Question

I create comment box like a facebook comment box. I have to do like this in textarea box type @ sign and after I type letter then detect this letter or letters and popup friend list.

$("textarea#event_message").autocomplete("friendsAutoComplete");

this method used for autocomplete that works fine. but want this method fire after type @ sign.

I tried this way

$('textarea#event_message').keypress(function(event) { if(event.which == 64) { $('textarea#event_message').autocomplete("friendsAutoComplete"); } });

and I also tried jquery live method

It doesn't like work.How can I solve that problem?

Quincy · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-26 07:05:59Z

First of all, what is the string "friendsAutoComplete" you referring?

To fire a search using an initialized autocomplete widget, you should call the search method instead.

http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/

So you may try out

$('textarea#event_message').keypress(function(event) { if(event.which == 64) { $('textarea#event_message').autocomplete("search"); } });

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