function pageLoad(){
            $find("autoCompleteBehavior1").add_itemSelected(onItemSelected); 
        }
       
        function onItemSelected(){
            //you can add some code here to send a postback.
          alert("hello")
        }

using above oon the client side i get the messgae from alert
but i need the select value from the autocompleteextender in the textbox
so that i culd assign that value to a hidden field & use that in the server side query to get the corresponsing details

i am not able to use the normal javascript code ie document.getElementById('autoCompleteExtender1').value  or even with the textbox

 http://forums.asp.net/t/1162005.aspx

http://forums.asp.net/t/1124044.aspx

Hi

Assign a client side event handler for the item selected eevent and then in that handler you can retrive the selecetd value with the following code :-

function itemSelected(evt) {
            var index = $find("<behaviour id of the autocomplete extender>")._selectIndex;
            var dd = $find("behVendorList").get_completionList().childNodes[index]._value;

          //here you can use the above variable dd and then assign value to respective textbox
}

i tried using aboce code

but getting

Microsoft JScript runtime error: 'null' is null or not an object

the follwoing is teh javascript on client side

the eg  links in the  page suggested by the links in this forums are not getting opened

Hi,

Firstly, you can use $find('behaviorID').get_element() to get the instance of Textbox.

In your code, please use

var dd = $find("autoCompleteBehavior1").get_completionList().childNodes[index]._value;

instead of

var dd = $find("autoCompleteExtender1").get_completionList().childNodes[index]._value;

You used incorrect behaviorID.

Hi

svibuk:

function pageLoad()

{

$find("autoCompleteBehavior1").add_itemSelected(onItemSelected);

}

Rather than setting it ion pageLoad function set this attribute directly in decleration of the control ie in markup.Where are you getting the error ie in which line ? If things are proper then alret(dd)  --> will throw an alert message showing the content of the selected value.

with the above i am getting "undefined "

i used

var

dd =$find("autoCompleteBehavior1").get_element().value = eventArgs.get_text().split(":")[0] ;

i get the value selected

i even get the value on the server side

now my prblm is with the value which i get after selection i need to get other related data of that selected value

so i use the value frm server side in the query

but i am not able to use it in text changed event of textbox

& secondaly after the selection is done i need the tab to be automiticaly moved to next control

Hi

I am not getting whats not actually working for you . the code snippet which I have provided , I have been using it in many places and it has even worked for many people here in this forum. Following is how I generally use it :-

var index = $find("<behaviour id of the autocomplete extender>")._selectIndex;
    var dd = $find("<behaviour id of the autocomplete extender>").get_completionList().childNodes[index]._value;
    $get('<id of the textbox>').value = dd.substring(0, dd.indexOf('|'));

Please cross check whether you are getting values form the server side code properly or not . May be there you will find something which might be causing the problem.

i used the above code & getting this error

Microsoft JScript runtime error: 'undefined' is null or not an object

at line 

 var x=$get('tx_name').value = dd.substring(0, dd.indexOf('|'));

in the below line

 var dd = $find("autoCompleteBehavior1").get_completionList().childNodes[index]._value;

i get the value of dd as undefined

this is my full code

function pageLoad()
 {
$find("autoCompleteBehavior1").add_itemSelected(setValue);
}
 
function setValue()
{

var index = $find("autoCompleteBehavior1")._selectIndex;
    var dd = $find("autoCompleteBehavior1").get_completionList().childNodes[index]._value;
    alert(dd)
    var x=$get('tx_name').value = dd.substring(0, dd.indexOf('|'));
alert(x)

}

 Please debug javascript in VS.

http://www.jonathanboutelle.com/mt/archives/2006/01/howto_debug_jav.html

this error means $get('tx_name') is a null object