auto_complete text field not showing drop-down box properly

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This may be more of an Ajax question than a Rails question, but I'm pretty new to Rails and know approximately zero JS. I'd love if someone could give me a little direction.

I'm using pat shaughnessy's nested text_field_with_auto_complete plugin, and it seems to be *mostly* working properly (after many hours of fiddling). However, the drop-down box is not displayed properly. Instead of rendering a box with items that can be highlighted, it's just rendering a bulleted list. I can still click on items in the bullet list, and they'll fill in the box properly. They also fade away if I go do something else for too long.

I don't even know where to begin to look.

Many thanks, John

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Hi Mark,

Thanks. I'll give that a try, but it seems strange that it should even happen; my view is simply:

<%= auto_complete_result @campuses, :name %>

Shouldn't that be formatting it correctly?

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Sounds to me like you're missing styling.

I use http://github.com/grosser/simple_auto_complete that comes with an example CSS that works just fine for me. That might give you some clues, but you'll probably have to modify it to work with the provided classes and ids.

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Found the problem! I was using :skip_style => true in the options for the text field. When I change that to false, it loads correctly.

Thanks!

John