.autocomplete is not a function Error

Question

below is my My Code

Answer 1

This is embarrassing but it held me up for a while so I figured I would post it here.

I did not have jQuery UI installed, only classic jQuery, which does not include autocomplete (apparently). Adding the following tags enabled autocomplete via jQuery UI.

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Of note, the HTML value autocomplete="off" for either the form or form block will prevent the brower from performing the method .autocomplete(), but will not block the jQuery UI function.