JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

by Matt Hopkins

HTML

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.8.18/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<label for="tags">Tags: </label>
  <input id="tags">

CSS

/* min Jquery CSS elements for autocomplete */
.ui-autocomplete { position: absolute; cursor: default; }    
.ui-menu { list-style:none; padding: 2px; margin: 0; display:block; float: left; background-color:#f9f9f9; border: 1px solid #efefef; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; }

.ui-menu .ui-menu {
        margin-top: -3px;
}
.ui-menu .ui-menu-item {
        margin:0;
        padding: 0;
        zoom: 1;
        float: left;
        clear: left;
        width: 100%;
        font-family:arial;
}
.ui-menu .ui-menu-item a {
        text-decoration:none;
        display:block;
        padding:.1em .3em;
        line-height:1.5;
        zoom:1;
}
.ui-menu .ui-menu-item a.ui-state-hover, .ui-menu .ui-menu-item a.ui-state-active {
        font-weight: bold;
}

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function() {
    var availableTags = [
      "ActionScript",
      "AppleScript",
      "Asp",
      "BASIC",
      "C",
      "C++",
      "Clojure",
      "COBOL",
      "ColdFusion",
      "Erlang",
      "Fortran",
      "Groovy",
      "Haskell",
      "Java",
      "JavaScript",
      "Lisp",
      "Perl",
      "PHP",
      "Python",
      "Ruby",
      "Scala",
      "Scheme"
    ];
    $( "#tags" ).autocomplete({
      source: availableTags,
      select: function (event, ui) {
    		var label = ui.item.label;
    		var value = ui.item.value;
  			//document.valueSelectedForAutocomplete = value;
        alert(value);
			}
    });
  });