这是一个类似于google自动补全的例子,挺长的,很容易打错,我调试了大半天才调出来,希望大家能用上。这个功能在表示层与用户交互的时候很有用,很人性化,很好的诠释了AJAX的异步的特点。
jsp部分如下:

<%...@pagelanguage="java"import="java.util.*"pageEncoding="gb2312"%>

<!DOCTYPEHTMLPUBLIC"-//W3C//DTDHTML4.01Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>AjaxAutoComplete!</title>

<styletype="text/css">...

.mouseOut{...}{
background:#708090;
color:#FFFAFA;
}


.mouseOver{...}{
background:#FFFAFA;
color:#000000;
}
</style>

<scripttype="text/javascript">...
varxmlHttp;
varcompleteDiv;
varinputField;
varnameTable;
varnameTableBody;


functioncreateXMLHttpRequest()...{

if(window.ActiveXObject)...{
xmlHttp=newActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");

}elseif(window.XMLHttpRequest)...{
xmlHttp=newXMLHttpRequest();
}
}


functioninitVars()...{
inputField=document.getElementById("names");
nameTable=document.getElementById("name_table");
completeDiv=document.getElementById("popup");
nameTableBody=document.getElementById("name_table_body");
}


functionfindNames()...{
initVars();

if(inputField.value.length>0)...{
createXMLHttpRequest();
varurl="/ajaxWeb/AutoCompleteServlet.do?names="+escape(inputField.value);
xmlHttp.open("GET",url,true);
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=callback;
xmlHttp.send(null);


}else...{
clearNames();
}

}


functioncallback()...{

if(xmlHttp.readyState==4)...{

if(xmlHttp.status==200)...{
varname=xmlHttp.responseXML.getElementsByTagName("name")[0].firstChild.data;
//alert(name);
setNames(xmlHttp.responseXML.getElementsByTagName("name"));

}elseif(xmlHttp.status==204)...{
clearNames();
}
}
}


functionsetNames(the_names)...{
//alert("1.the_names="+the_names.length);
//alert("=1=");
clearNames();
//alert("=2=");
varsize=the_names.length;
//alert("2.the_names="+size);
//setOffsets()设置下拉框的属性
setOffsets();
varrow,cell,txtNode,tbody;

for(vari=0;i<size;i++)...{
varnextNode=the_names[i].firstChild.data;

//tbody=document.createElement("tbody");
row=document.createElement("tr");
cell=document.createElement("td");
txtNode=document.createTextNode(nextNode);
//cell的属性设置

//===================================

cell.onmouseout=function()...{this.className='mouseOver';}

cell.onmouseover=function()...{this.className='mouseOut';}
cell.setAttribute("bgcolor","green");
cell.setAttribute("border","0");

cell.onclick=function()...{populateName(this);}
//===================================
//alert("=3=");
nameTableBody.appendChild(row);
row.appendChild(cell);
cell.appendChild(txtNode);
//alert("=4=");
//===================================
}
}

functionsetOffsets()...{
varend=inputField.offsetWidth;
varleft=calculateOffsetLeft(inputField);
vartop=calculateOffsetTop(inputField)+inputField.offsetHeight;

completeDiv.style.border="black1pxsolid"
completeDiv.style.left=left+"px";
completeDiv.style.top=top+"px";
nameTable.style.width=end+"px";
}


functioncalculateOffsetLeft(field)...{
returncalculateOffset(field,"offsetLeft");
}

functioncalculateOffsetTop(field)...{
returncalculateOffset(field,"offsetTop");
}

functioncalculateOffset(field,attr)...{
varoffset=0;

while(field)...{
offset+=field[attr];
field=field.offsetParent;
}
returnoffset;
}

functionpopulateName(cell)...{
inputField.value=cell.firstChild.nodeValue;
clearNames();
}

functionclearNames()...{
varind=nameTableBody.childNodes.length;
//alert("1.下拉菜单个数="+ind);

for(vari=ind-1;i>=0;i--)...{
nameTableBody.removeChild(nameTableBody.childNodes[i]);
}
ind=nameTableBody.childNodes.length;
//alert("2.下拉菜单个数="+ind);
completeDiv.style.border="none";
}

</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>AjaxAutoCompleteExample!</h1>
Names:<inputtype="text"id="names"size="20"onkeyup="findNames();"style="height:20;"/>
<divstyle="position:absolute;"id="popup">
<tableid="name_table"bgcolor="#FFFAFA"border="0"cellspacing="0"cellpadding="0">
