Edit ForeignKey, ManyToManyField and CharField in Django Admin using jQuery UI AutoComplete.

http://django-ajax-selects.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Define a lookup channel:

# yourapp/lookups.py
from ajax_select import register, LookupChannel
from .models import Tag

@register('tags')
class TagsLookup(LookupChannel):

    model = Tag

    def get_query(self, q, request):
        return self.model.objects.filter(name__icontains=q).order_by('name')[:50]

    def format_item_display(self, item):
        return u"<span class='tag'>%s</span>" % item.name

Add field to a form:

# yourapp/forms.py
class DocumentForm(ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model = Document

    tags = AutoCompleteSelectMultipleField('tags')

• Customize search query
• Query other resources besides Django ORM
• Format results with HTML
• Customize styling
• Customize security policy
• Add additional custom UI alongside widget
• Integrate with other UI elements elsewhere on the page using the javascript API
• Works in Admin as well as in normal views

• //ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js
• //code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.3/jquery-ui.js
• //code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.3/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css

• Django >=1.5, <=1.9
• Python >=2.7, <=3.4

Many thanks to all contributors and pull requesters !

https://github.com/crucialfelix/django-ajax-selects/graphs/contributors

Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses:

• http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
• http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html