# Show autocomplete (scriptaculous)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/show-autocomplete-scriptaculous/104251>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 15, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/show-autocomplete-scriptaculous/104251 "2007-05-15T23:19:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![cfingerh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cfingerh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cfingerh)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/show-autocomplete-scriptaculous/104251/1 "2007-05-15T23:19:54Z")

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I’m using scriptaculous to generate in a autocomplete field

var user\_name\_auto\_completer = new Ajax.Autocompleter(‘user\_name’,  
‘user\_name\_auto\_complete’, ‘/users/auto\_complete\_for\_user\_name’, {})

It’s wokring OK. But I want that when the users clicks on a button  
then it should show everything.  
I need something like  
onclick=" user\_name\_auto\_completer.filter(’’);  
user\_name\_auto\_completer.show()"

Thanks

Christian