10 Best Autocomplete & Typeahead JavaScript Plugins (2024 Update)

by jQueryScript,

Autocomplete is a generic design pattern that is typically used in an input field, which displays a dropdown list containing predefined suggestions when typing.

In this blog post, we collected and listed here a list of 10 best JavaScript plugins to easily and quickly implement the Autocomplete & Typeahead functionalities on your modern web app. Have fun.

Originally Published Mar 12 2018, updated Jan 28 2024

Table Of Contents:

Best jQuery Autocomplete & Typeahead Plugins:

jQuery Ajax Autocomplete Plugin For Input Fields - Autocomplete

A jQuery based autocomplete plugin that attaches autocomplete/autosuggest drop down list with ajax lookup to text input fields when your users input.

jQuery Ajax Autocomplete Plugin For Input Fields - Autocomplete

[Demo] [Download]


Smart Autocomplete Component For Bootstrap 5/4

A lightweight and easy-to-use autocomplete component for Bootstrap 5 and Bootstrap 4 frameworks. It was written in ES 6 and is100% compliant with Twitter Bootstrap markup, styles, and API.

Smart Autocomplete Component For Bootstrap 5/4

[Demo] [Download]


Autocomplete Suggestions For Inputs - Bootstrap Autocomplete

A full-featured autocomplete plugin for Bootstrap framework that displays suggestions in a dropdown list as users type something in your input field.

Autocomplete Suggestions For Inputs - Bootstrap Autocomplete

[Demo] [Download]


Full-featured Autocomplete Library For jQuery - Typeahead.js

Just another jQuery typeahead plugin which provides fully customizable and AJAX-enabled autocomplete functionalities on input fields with flexible APIs.

Full-featured Autocomplete Library For jQuery - Typeahead.js

[Demo] [Download]


Simple Flexible jQuery Autocomplete Plugin - Flexdatalist

A simple, flexible, powerful jQuery plugin which provides the 'autocomplete' functionality on your input field with support for local datalist and remote JSON data.

Simple Flexible jQuery Autocomplete Plugin - Flexdatalist

[Demo] [Download]


Vanilla JS Autocomplete & Typeahead Plugins:

Fast Autocomplete/Typeahead Library For Bootstrap 5

This is the upgraded version of the Bootstrap 4 Autocomplete plugin that enables a blazing fast autocomplete/typeahead functionality on Bootstrap 5 inputs.

autocomplete-typeahead-bootstrap-5

[Demo] [Download]


Elegant Multi-Select Component With Autocomplete – SelectPure

A pure JavaScript (es6) library to create elegant single or multiple select controls with support for autocomplete and dynamic data rendering.

SelectPure

[Demo] [Download]


Bootstrap 5 Autocomplete Plugin With JavaScript

A Bootstrap 5 autocomplete component that adds an autocomplete list to an input field with Bootstrap style.

Bootstrap 5 Autocomplete Plugin With JavaScript

[Demo] [Download]


Advanced Feature-rich Autocomplete JavaScript Library – awesomplete

A simple yet highly customizable, user-friendly, feature-rich autocomplete library written in pure JavaScript.

Advanced Feature-rich Autocomplete JavaScript Library – awesomplete

[Demo] [Download]


minisearch

A tiny but powerful in-memory fulltext search engine written in JavaScript. It is respectful of resources, and it can comfortably run both in Node and in the browser.

minisearch

[Demo] [Download]


Conclusion:

If you're looking to add some useful features to a form, autocomplete and typeahead are among the best tools to do so. If you need a component for autocomplete and/or typeahead, any of these 10 JavaScript plugins will likely do what you need.

Seeking more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to create awesome Autocomplete & Typeahead component on the web & mobile? See jQuery Autocomplete and JavaScript Autocomplete sections for more details.

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