Over the last few articles about jQuery, we've shown you how to write plug-ins to encourage reusable code. Sometimes, before writing a plug-in your first step should really be to see if someone else has done it for you.
The jQuery community has a vast array of plug-ins freely available for use – you can see them
at the jQuery plug-ins site. There are also existing UI widgets available from the
jQuery-UI project.
In this tutorial, we're going to take a jQuery-UI widget and show you how to implement it – the autocomplete widget.
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