Suggest As You Type

In our ongoing quest to create the ultimate application, usability and familiarity are often given far too little thought. This article explains a very effective way of giving users a comfortable environment, by mimicking a popular piece of GUI functionality. I will show you how to create a tool that captures characters as you type, and tries to match them to items in a
menu. This is a great way to speed up the process of selecting a specific item within a large list, or just suggesting a similar item to what the user has typed. This is the old-school, non DHTML method to achieve what Google Suggest now does much better! Read on…

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