I plan to post a series of examples demonstrating how to use the new Ajax functionality in
ColdFusion 8 (many based on examples used during our recent usergroup tour). The first one I'll start with is the auto-suggest control. Auto-suggest is a modified text input box, one that displays suggestions as the user types. The auto-suggest control in ColdFusion 8 can be used in two ways, with local client-side data, and with asynchronous calls back to ColdFusion.
Here's a simple client-side data example (which uses one of the CF8 example databases, so this should work for you as is):
<!--- Get data --->
<cfquery datasource="cfartgallery" name="data">
SELECT artname
FROM art
ORDER BY artname
</cfquery>
<!--- The form --->
<cfform>
Art:
<!--- Populate auto-suggest control --->
<cfinput type="text"
name="artname"
autosuggest="#ValueList(data.artname)#">
</cfform>
