How to make an interactive search box?

[Saiph Kappa]

Hello,

I am using the following template as a search box.

@helper.input(userForm("foo"), '_label->null) { (id, name, value, args) =>
  <input type="search" name="@name" id="@id" @toHtmlArgs(args)>
}

How can I make it interactive so that every time I type a key it goes to a database for searching that prefix?

Thanks,

Saiph.

[Patrick Li]

This you should be using javascript, such as Twitter Typeahead https://twitter.github.io/typeahead.js/

[Adam Lane]

+1 for leveraging existing solutions.  If you do opt for the typeahead route, here is a maintained fork: https://github.com/corejavascript/typeahead.js