Due to a request from a friend, here is a tutorial on how to do an auto-suggest script using jQuery and the keyup() event. The program logic of this script is based on the AJAX suggest script from w3schools but with some improvements on the efficiency, ease of use and customization by using jQuery.

The basic logic of an auto-suggest script is that for every keystroke that a user enters on a textfield, the script must send an AJAX request and validate which words in a dictionary most closely resembles the current input. Read more »