How to initialize autocomplete manually?

[Jesse Clark]

I have a form element that I want to autocomplete which is displayed in a modal popup as a result of an ajax call.

Obviously the form element isn't around on page load when autocomplete tries to initialize.

I tried executing jQuery('input[data-autocomplete]').railsAutocomplete(); in the on ajax:success function after the element is displayed but was getting Undefined errors in the js console.

Any suggestions for how to make railsAutocomplete work in these circumstances?

[Denis]

Run this call after your modal html.

  .modal
    .body
    ...
  :javascript
    jQuery('input[data-autocomplete]').railsAutocomplete()

[Manu S Ajith]

@jesseclark are you still facing this issue ?

[Joiey Seeley]

3 months and we haven't heard back; so I'm closing this out.