Hi,

In the autocomplete plugin, i'm overriding several functions for some instances, ex:

this.input = $('<input type="text" />').appendTo(document.body);

// Using jQuery ui autocomplete module
this.input.autocomplete(
{
	//options
});

// Overidding rendering functions for this autcomplete instance (not all instances!)
// In order to force HTML rendering (label can contains HTML)
var autocomplete = this.input.data('autocomplete');
autocomplete._renderItem = function (ul, item)
{
	return $("<li></li>")
		.data("item.autocomplete", item)
		.append($("<a></a>").html(item.label))
		.appendTo(ul);
};

It would be great if such override - for a specific instance - is possible for the filter method.

For now I can only override it globally :

if ($.ui)
{
	$.extend($.ui.autocomplete,
	{
		filter: function(results, term)
		{
                        //ex: dealing with accents, show only dates, ... etc
			return stuff;
		}
	});
}

:-(

The comment shows various usage: I'd like one autocomplete to show only dates, one other only text, ....

> I've already done some filtering on the datasource of course.

I'm just asking for more granularity, because it's hard for me to do this for example:

Have an autocomplete filled with dates such as (10/02/2001, 10.02.2001, 10-02-2001) and make all thoses 3 values match for the search '10.02.2001' or the search '10/02/2001', or even the search '10.02/2001'. Got it ? Thx++