# Using text\_field\_with\_auto\_complete with afterUpdateElement **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 3, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-text-field-with-auto-complete-with-afterupdateelement/150119 "2008-10-03T22:52:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sweetpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@sweetpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweetpete)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-text-field-with-auto-complete-with-afterupdateelement/150119/1 "2008-10-03T22:52:29Z")
Hello everybody! I’m fairly new to RoR (Rails ver 1.2.6) but have managed to get the ‘text\_field\_with\_auto\_complete’ working alright in my application. Next step is to be able to synchronize 2 (or more) ‘text\_field\_with\_auto\_complete’ fields so that the users selection in the first field immediately affects the available choices of the next (and so on). So far I have figured out that ‘afterUpdateElement’ must be the right way to go but can’t really find out how to do it right… Can anybody help on this - preferably with an example? Regards! ---
**Author:** ![sweetpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@sweetpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweetpete)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-text-field-with-auto-complete-with-afterupdateelement/150119/2 "2008-10-03T23:07:28Z")
Peter Jeppesen wrote: > Hello everybody! > > I’m fairly new to RoR (Rails ver 1.2.6) but have managed to get the > ‘text\_field\_with\_auto\_complete’ working alright in my application. Hello Peter!!! Sorry to bother you!!! But I have a question how did you do to make the auto\_complete work, I’m trying to do it but nothing happened, look my post [Problem with auto\_complete! - Rails - Ruby-Forum](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/167142#new) . Peter if you can give an example I’ll appreciate. Thank you!!!