I want to use jQuery UI and autocomplete in my search form. First I want to check whether any list will be displayed so I copied the code from the documentation and pasted it in my page template. The jQuery UI CSS and JS is loaded because I can see it in the Dev Tool in CHrome. However the dropdown list is not showing. I added the following HTML to my header.php
<div class="ui-widget">
<label for="tags">Tags: </label>
<input id="tags">
</div>
My JS
(function($){
var availableTags = [
"ActionScript",
"AppleScript",
"Asp",
"BASIC",
"C",
"C++",
"Clojure",
"COBOL",
"ColdFusion",
"Erlang",
"Fortran",
"Groovy",
"Haskell",
"Java",
"JavaScript",
"Lisp",
"Perl",
"PHP",
"Python",
"Ruby",
"Scala",
"Scheme"
];
$( "#tags" ).autocomplete({
source: availableTags
});
})(jQuery);
and here is a code how I added jQuery UI and my search.js
wp_enqueue_script('autocomplete', get_template_directory_uri() .'/js/jquery-ui.js', array('jquery'));
wp_enqueue_script('mysite-js', get_stylesheet_directory_uri().'/js/search.js', array('jquery', 'autocomplete'));
wp_enqueue_style('autocomplete.css', get_template_directory_uri() .'/css/jquery-ui.css');
I have no idea what am I doing wrong. I tried to add the search from in a diffrent places in my template, but the result is the same – not showing dropdown list. I am using WordPress and Understrap theme.
thank you in advance for the tips