I’ve been using this autocomplete plugin for a while, it works great. For almost every jQuery plugin there is a packed version supplied, but not for this one, so I decided to pack it myself.
But whoops… Javascript errors occured when using the packed version of the plugin. After adding a few semicolons the file got packed correctly and my FireFox 3 is eating it without spitting out errors.
If you have a bunch of javascript that won’t correctly pack, please make sure your code follows this “packer standard”:
// sample code
var input, output;
// notice the semi-colon at the END of function declarations
onload = function() {
input = document.getElementById("input");
output = document.getElementById("output");
clearAll(true);
};
function packScript() {
output.value = pack(input.value);
};
function clearAll(focus) {
output.value = input.value = "";
// the "if" statement is NOT terminated with a semi-colon
if (focus) {
input.focus();
}
};
Packer follows all javascript standards nicely, except for one thing: funtion declarations must also be terminated with a semicolon. More information about this is available at the usage page of Dean Edward’s packer-website.
