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    copied!<p>I am using Twitter typeahead.js for searching a list of names and the client wants the suggestions based on first names.</p> <p>Is there an option to make Twitter typeahead.js match a search query with the start of each result, rather than anywhere within the string? </p> <p>I can see a <code>beginsWithQuery</code> variable within the <code>_updateHint</code> function, however I don't know how to specify this as an option, or even if this relates to what I am trying to achieve.</p> <p>The jQuery function which is calling typeahead in my project is:</p> <pre><code>$( 'input[name="s"]' ) .typeahead( { name: 'search', remote: wp_typeahead.ajaxurl + '?action=ajax_search&amp;fn=get_ajax_search&amp;terms=%QUERY', template: [ '&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="{{url}}"&gt;{{value}}&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;', ].join(''), engine: Hogan } ) ); </code></pre> <p>I can see the response from the <code>ajax_search</code> is in the format</p> <pre><code>[ { "tokens" : [ "First","Last" ], "url" : "http://url/for/first-last/", "value" : "First Last" }, ] </code></pre> <p>so I need to figure out how to filter this JSON to include only datums for which <code>token[0]</code> matches the search query.</p> <p>EDIT: Additional notes about what I had to add to do to implement the <code>prefetch</code> solution work as per @jharding's anwser below.</p> <p>This is a WordPress site, and the names the site is search are the titles of a custom post type of 'model'. I created a file called list-all-models.php which outputs an array of the model names in the required datum format.</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php define('WP_USE_THEMES', false); require('../../../../wp-load.php'); // depends on where this file is $args = array ( 'post_type' =&gt; 'model', 'orderby' =&gt; 'title', 'order' =&gt; 'asc', 'posts_per_page' =&gt; -1 ); $models = get_posts($args); $model_names = array(); foreach ($models as $i =&gt; $model) { $model_names[$i]['value'] = $model-&gt;post_title; $model_names[$i]['url'] = $model-&gt;guid; $model_names[$i]['tokens'] = explode(' ', $model-&gt;post_title); } header("Content-type: application/json"); die(json_encode($model_names)); ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>I then used the URL of this file as the url parameter in the <code>prefetch</code> option.</p> <p>Now the search is working exactly as intended :)</p>
 

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