List of Autocomplete Plugins and Libraries

Last updated on September 3, 2015 in Development

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I have been searching around for some good jQuery autocomplete plugins or any other JavaScript autocomplete micro frameworks and wanted to share my results. I initially wanted to use datalist since it is part of the HTML5 spec but lack of Safari support is not ideal. I’ve also had some issues with click events on a datalist and my needs really require a database with the autocomplete so I started looking for some other scripts. If you are not using a database and the list is relatively small, you could implement something like jQuery live search, flexselect, or a searchable dropdowns but this list focuses on a more complete solution where you need to query a backend to retrieve and filter results. Here is a list of over 30 of the best jQuery and pure JavaScript autocomplete scripts, plugins, and libraries:

typeahead.js fast autocomplete library from Twitter
complete.ly JavaScript library for autocompletion
Marco Polo jQuery Autocomplete plugin
bassistance jQuery Autocomplete Plugin
jQuery UI Autocomplete Widget
jQuery TextEXT Tag Input and Autocomplete
YUI Autocomplete
jQuery TokenInput Autocomplete
jQuery Manifest Input Autocomplete
Inputosaurus Text Input with Autocomplete