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Autocomplete involves the program predicting a word or phrase that the user wants to type in without the user actually typing it in completely

Autocomplete is a feature provided by many web browsers, e-mail programs, search engine interfaces, source code editors, database query tools, word processors, and command line interpreters. Autocomplete involves the program predicting a word or phrase that the user wants to type in without the user actually typing it in completely.

Questions with the autocomplete tag regards the usability of autocompletion.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-complete

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Is missing match in autocomplete feature counter-intuitive?

Our application provides a way for administrators to authenticate as a specific user. It provides a text field to type a username you want to authenticate. When you type 4 letters or more the autocomplete list appears with a list of matching…
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Handling Autocomplete when User Presses Enter

I have a simple JQuery Autocomplete with a list from the database. My question is not of technical nature, but of usability. How do you respond to a user pressing the Enter key when the search key is incomplete. e.g. I have three items, ABC ABD and…
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what is the best way to have an autocomplete at the bottom of a webpage

I have a webapp, and it has a list of items at the bottom of the page. The last item is a textbox with autocomplete. So the text box is right at the bottom of the page. I want the textbox to do autocomplete, so I guess I have two choices, I can push…
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What to do for slow autocomplete?

I'm making an app that can search Metacritic (screen-scraper app). In the search box, I have an autocomplete function, which essentially does exactly what pressing "Search" would do, which is query Metacritic and populate a listview with the…
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Is it useful to show images in auto-suggestions?

I am developing an application for a quiz competition. So obviously there would be a student search engine. So I decided that there would be an auto-suggestion feature for it. But, my question is; is it really necessary to display picture of student…
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How to make it obvious that autocomplete is not a dropdown

Let's say we have an autocomplete like this. The autocomplete has thousands of possible results and so we only display the first 20 results. Some of the results are very similar. This leads to two problems: Users click in the input field, the…
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Typeahead : what purpose does the inline hint serve?

A common pattern in typeahead / autocomplete is to show the first suggestion as a hint in the search box itself. What is its purpose from the UX perspective? the text "ssh client" in the search box, is what i am talking about
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