a lightweight jQuery plugin for autosuggest searching on goingslowly.com

initialization options

$('#autosuggest').autosuggest(
{
  data:{}, // JSON data to search
  delaySearch:100, // delay from last typed letter before searching
  delayClose:1500, // delay to close results after mouseout
  minChars:3, // minimum number of characters required to start search
  key:'name', // data object property name for field to search
  val:'url', // data object property name for url of hit
  prefix:'prefix', // data object property name for prefixed hits
                   // this should be placed at the end of the object
                   // so they display first
  offsetTop:0, // offset placement of results from top
  offsetLeft:0, // offset placement of results from left
  highlight:true // true of matching portion of word should be highlighted
};

sample JSON data

var blog_entries =
[
  {
    name:'My First Blog Entry',
    url:'http://www.blog.com/blog-entry-one/'
  },
  {
    name:'Blog Entry Number Two',
    url:'http://www.blog.com/blog-entry-two/'
  },
  {
    name:'Title of Third Blog',
    url:'http://www.blog.com/blog-entry-three/'
  },
  {
    name:'Blogs',
    url:'http://www.blog.com/topic/blogs/',
    prefix:'Topic:'
  }
];