reledit: stuff the value into its own div and properly hide it when necessary (but dont lump it with the landingzone div for it switches the form on when one clicks on a value to traverse it)
/*
* Autocomplete - jQuery plugin 1.0.2
*
* Copyright (c) 2007 Dylan Verheul, Dan G. Switzer, Anjesh Tuladhar, Jörn Zaefferer
*
* Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses:
* http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
* http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
*
* Revision: $Id: jquery.autocomplete.js 5747 2008-06-25 18:30:55Z joern.zaefferer $
*
*/;(function($){$.fn.extend({autocomplete:function(urlOrData,options){var isUrl=typeof urlOrData=="string";options=$.extend({},$.Autocompleter.defaults,{url:isUrl?urlOrData:null,data:isUrl?null:urlOrData,delay:isUrl?$.Autocompleter.defaults.delay:10,max:options&&!options.scroll?10:150},options);options.highlight=options.highlight||function(value){return value;};options.formatMatch=options.formatMatch||options.formatItem;return this.each(function(){new $.Autocompleter(this,options);});},result:function(handler){return this.bind("result",handler);},search:function(handler){return this.trigger("search",[handler]);},flushCache:function(){return this.trigger("flushCache");},setOptions:function(options){return this.trigger("setOptions",[options]);},unautocomplete:function(){return this.trigger("unautocomplete");}});$.Autocompleter=function(input,options){var KEY={UP:38,DOWN:40,DEL:46,TAB:9,RETURN:13,ESC:27,COMMA:188,PAGEUP:33,PAGEDOWN:34,BACKSPACE:8};var 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$input.val("");}});}if(wasVisible)$.Autocompleter.Selection(input,input.value.length,input.value.length);};function receiveData(q,data){if(data&&data.length&&hasFocus){stopLoading();select.display(data,q);autoFill(q,data[0].value);select.show();}else{hideResultsNow();}};function request(term,success,failure){if(!options.matchCase)term=term.toLowerCase();var data=cache.load(term);if(data&&data.length){success(term,data);}else if((typeof options.url=="string")&&(options.url.length>0)){var extraParams={timestamp:+new Date()};$.each(options.extraParams,function(key,param){extraParams[key]=typeof param=="function"?param():param;});$.ajax({mode:"abort",port:"autocomplete"+input.name,dataType:options.dataType,url:options.url,data:$.extend({q:lastWord(term),limit:options.max},extraParams),success:function(data){var parsed=options.parse&&options.parse(data)||parse(data);cache.add(term,parsed);success(term,parsed);}});}else{select.emptyList();failure(term);}};function parse(data){var parsed=[];var rows=data.split("\n");for(var i=0;i<rows.length;i++){var row=$.trim(rows[i]);if(row){row=row.split("|");parsed[parsed.length]={data:row,value:row[0],result:options.formatResult&&options.formatResult(row,row[0])||row[0]};}}return parsed;};function stopLoading(){$input.removeClass(options.loadingClass);};};$.Autocompleter.defaults={inputClass:"ac_input",resultsClass:"ac_results",loadingClass:"ac_loading",minChars:1,delay:400,matchCase:false,matchSubset:true,matchContains:false,cacheLength:10,max:100,mustMatch:false,extraParams:{},selectFirst:true,formatItem:function(row){return row[0];},formatMatch:null,autoFill:false,width:0,multiple:false,multipleSeparator:", ",highlight:function(value,term){return value.replace(new RegExp("(?![^&;]+;)(?!<[^<>]*)("+term.replace(/([\^\$\(\)\[\]\{\}\*\.\+\?\|\\])/gi,"\\$1")+")(?![^<>]*>)(?![^&;]+;)","gi"),"<strong>$1</strong>");},scroll:true,scrollHeight:180};$.Autocompleter.Cache=function(options){var data={};var length=0;function matchSubset(s,sub){if(!options.matchCase)s=s.toLowerCase();var i=s.indexOf(sub);if(i==-1)return false;return i==0||options.matchContains;};function add(q,value){if(length>options.cacheLength){flush();}if(!data[q]){length++;}data[q]=value;}function populate(){if(!options.data)return false;var stMatchSets={},nullData=0;if(!options.url)options.cacheLength=1;stMatchSets[""]=[];for(var i=0,ol=options.data.length;i<ol;i++){var rawValue=options.data[i];rawValue=(typeof rawValue=="string")?[rawValue]:rawValue;var value=options.formatMatch(rawValue,i+1,options.data.length);if(value===false)continue;var firstChar=value.charAt(0).toLowerCase();if(!stMatchSets[firstChar])stMatchSets[firstChar]=[];var row={value:value,data:rawValue,result:options.formatResult&&options.formatResult(rawValue)||value};stMatchSets[firstChar].push(row);if(nullData++<options.max){stMatchSets[""].push(row);}};$.each(stMatchSets,function(i,value){options.cacheLength++;add(i,value);});}setTimeout(populate,25);function flush(){data={};length=0;}return{flush:flush,add:add,populate:populate,load:function(q){if(!options.cacheLength||!length)return null;if(!options.url&&options.matchContains){var csub=[];for(var k in data){if(k.length>0){var c=data[k];$.each(c,function(i,x){if(matchSubset(x.value,q)){csub.push(x);}});}}return csub;}else
if(data[q]){return data[q];}else
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