Gmail/Yahoo Type Address Popup

Hi,

If any of you are using Gmail/Yahoo, you might have noticed that when you want to compose a new mail, in the To: field, you type the first one, two or three character of the person whom you want to sent the mail and a list of similar address pops-up in a list, and you can select the one whom you want to send the mail.

Whats that pop-up process called and where can I find the source code of it for my website?

I would have searched google before posting but since I didnt knew wot is it called, hence I had to post it here.


Thanx for your help

 

Its called as 'AJAX suggest'.

 

ajax suggest ?can u please explain?

 

Hello,

Below url will help you check it out.

http://cristian.nexcess.net/ajax/suggest/

 

You could also do it with jQuery, jQuery is far easier than writing Javascript formal code for it.

See jquery.com, there are plenty of tutorials on ajax.

Good luck

 

k. Thanx for the reply.

 

I often use the Ext toolkit, it makes implementing features like this simple, but you should have a strong understanding of javascript and AJAX if you go this route