How to tie Typeahead.js suggestions to a cross domain data source?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21520609/how-to-tie-typeahead-js-suggestions-to-a-cross-domain-data-source
by Joe Saad
HTML
<script src="http://twitter.github.io/typeahead.js/releases/latest/typeahead.bundle.js"></script>
<input class="typeahead"></input>
CSS
@font-face {
font-family:"Prociono";
src: url("../font/Prociono-Regular-webfont.ttf");
}
html {
overflow-y: scroll;
}
.container {
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 750px;
text-align: center;
}
.tt-dropdown-menu, .gist {
text-align: left;
}
html {
color: #333333;
font-family:"Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px;
line-height: 1.2;
}
.title, .example-name {
font-family: Prociono;
}
p {
margin: 0 0 10px;
}
.title {
font-size: 64px;
margin: 20px 0 0;
}
.example {
padding: 30px 0;
}
.example-name {
font-size: 32px;
margin: 20px 0;
}
.demo {
margin: 50px 0;
position: relative;
}
.typeahead, .tt-query, .tt-hint {
border: 2px solid #CCCCCC;
border-radius: 8px 8px 8px 8px;
font-size: 24px;
height: 30px;
line-height: 30px;
outline: medium none;
padding: 8px 12px;
width: 396px;
}
.typeahead {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
.typeahead:focus {
border: 2px solid #0097CF;
}
.tt-query {
box-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.075) inset;
}
.tt-hint {
color: #999999;
}
.tt-dropdown-menu {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
border-radius: 8px 8px 8px 8px;
box-shadow: 0 5px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
margin-top: 12px;
padding: 8px 0;
width: 422px;
}
.tt-suggestion {
font-size: 18px;
line-height: 24px;
padding: 3px 20px;
}
.tt-suggestion.tt-cursor {
background-color: #0097CF;
color: #FFFFFF;
}
.tt-suggestion p {
margin: 0;
}
.gist {
font-size: 14px;
}
.example-twitter-oss .tt-suggestion {
padding: 8px 20px;
}
.example-twitter-oss .tt-suggestion + .tt-suggestion {
border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
}
.example-twitter-oss .repo-language {
float: right;
font-style: italic;
}
.example-twitter-oss .repo-name {
font-weight: bold;
}
.example-twitter-oss .repo-description {
font-size: 14px;
}
.example-sports .league-name {
border-bottom: 1px...
JavaScript
// Instantiate the Bloodhound suggestion engine
var movies = new Bloodhound({
datumTokenizer: function (datum) {
return Bloodhound.tokenizers.whitespace(datum.value);
},
queryTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.whitespace,
remote: {
url: 'http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?query=%QUERY&api_key=470fd2ec8853e25d2f8d86f685d2270e',
filter: function (movies) {
// Map the remote source JSON array to a JavaScript array
return $.map(movies.results, function (movie) {
return {
value: movie.original_title
};
});
}
}
});
// Initialize the Bloodhound suggestion engine
movies.initialize();
// Instantiate the Typeahead UI
$('.typeahead').typeahead(null, {
displayKey: 'value',
source: movies.ttAdapter()
});