SimplytheBest Autocomplete Scripts

The simply the best collection of autocomplete scripts

Enables users to quickly find and select from a pre-populated list of values as they type, leveraging searching and filtering.

A jQuery autocomplete plugin for the discerning developer. Requires jQuery UI Widget 1.8.21+.

typeahead.js By: Jake Harding
Free MIT

A fast and fully-featured autocomplete library and works with hardcoded as well as remote data. Supports customized templates for suggestions.

Sifter By: Brian Reavis
Free Apache2

A client- and server-side library (via UMD) for textually searching arrays and hashes of objects by property or multiple properties. Designed specifically for autocomplete. The process is 3-step: score, filter, sort. Supports diacritics, smart sorting, multi-field sorting.

A highly configurable jQuery autocomplete plugin. It supports local and remote data sets (JSON, XML and plain text), uses Ajax method calls, allows to search, sort and match the response phrase.