Before I found JQuery or JQuery found me and fall in internal blissful love, I wrote an autosuggest dropdown function which I have been using for years. It took almost a week to write and stretch as far as my house to Minnesota. Recently I caught in a habit of simplifying my old pure JavaScript function to JQuery and this function caught me today. After around 20 lines of JavaScript and couple of hours of testing and tweaking this starts to work better than my original function.
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