var substringMatcher = function(strs) { return function findMatches(q, cb) { var matches, substrRegex; // an array that will be populated with substring matches matches = []; // regex used to determine if a string contains the substring `q` substrRegex = new RegExp(q, 'i'); // iterate through the pool of strings and for any string that // contains the substring `q`, add it to the `matches` array $.each(strs, function(i, str) { if (substrRegex.test(str)) { // the typeahead jQuery plugin expects suggestions to a // JavaScript object, refer to typeahead docs for more info matches.push({ value: str }); } }); cb(matches); }; }; var states = ['Alabama', 'Alaska', 'Arizona', 'Arkansas', 'California', 'Colorado', 'Connecticut', 'Delaware', 'Florida', 'Georgia', 'Hawaii', 'Idaho', 'Illinois', 'Indiana', 'Iowa', 'Kansas', 'Kentucky', 'Louisiana', 'Maine', 'Maryland', 'Massachusetts', 'Michigan', 'Minnesota', 'Mississippi', 'Missouri', 'Montana', 'Nebraska', 'Nevada', 'New Hampshire', 'New Jersey', 'New Mexico', 'New York', 'North Carolina', 'North Dakota', 'Ohio', 'Oklahoma', 'Oregon', 'Pennsylvania', 'Rhode Island', 'South Carolina', 'South Dakota', 'Tennessee', 'Texas', 'Utah', 'Vermont', 'Virginia', 'Washington', 'West Virginia', 'Wisconsin', 'Wyoming' ]; $('#the-basics .typeahead').typeahead({ hint: true, highlight: true, minLength: 1 }, { name: 'states', displayKey: 'value', source: substringMatcher(states) }); // constructs the suggestion engine var states = new Bloodhound({ datumTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.obj.whitespace('value'), queryTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.whitespace, // `states` is an array of state names defined in "The Basics" local: $.map(states, function(state) { return { value: state }; }) }); // kicks off the loading/processing of `local` and `prefetch` states.initialize(); $('#bloodhound .typeahead').typeahead({ hint: true, highlight: true, minLength: 1 }, { name: 'states', displayKey: 'value', // `ttAdapter` wraps the suggestion engine in an adapter that // is compatible with the typeahead jQuery plugin source: states.ttAdapter() });