Twitter Bootstrap Typeahead - Id & Label

Question

I\'m using Bootstrap 2.1.1 and jQuery 1.8.1 and trying to use Typeahead\'s functionality.

I try to display a label and use an id li

Answer 1

As of version 0.10.1 of Twitter Typeahead (https://github.com/twitter/typeahead.js), Id / Label is supported natively:

  $('input[name=address]').typeahead({
        hint: false
    }, {
        source: function (query, cb) {
            $.ajax({
                url: '/api/addresses?q=' + encodeURIComponent(query),
                dataType: 'json',
                cache: false,
                type: 'GET',
                success: function (response, textStatus, jqXHR) {
                    cb(response.data);
                },
                error: function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
                }
            });
        },
        name: 'addresses',
        displayKey: 'text'
    }).on('typeahead:selected', function (e, suggestion, name) {
        window.location.href = '/' + suggestion.id;
    });

If the example above, I'm passing an array of objects to the source callback (cb). By specifying displayKey: 'text', I'm telling the library to use the 'text' property for the auto-suggest. When the 'typeahead:select' callback is called, the second argument passed in (suggestion) contains the object that was selected.