<af:autoSuggestBehavior>

The autoSuggestBehavior tag is a declarative way to show the suggestedItems in a dropdown for the editable components based on user input in the field.

suggestedItems attribute needs to be bounded to a method with signature List<javax.faces.model.SelectItem> mysuggestedItemsMethod(String)
The labels of the selectItems will be displayed in the dropdown and when the user selects a particualr item the value will be selected and displayed in the input field.

Example:

<source>
            <af:inputText id="inputText" label="String value"
                            value="#{bean.value}">
                <af:autoSuggestBehavior suggestedItems="#{bean.suggestedItems}"/>
              </af:inputText>

</source>

Attributes

Name	Type	Supports EL?	Description
suggestedItems	String	required	An EL expression pointing to the java method which returns List<javax.model.SelectItem> of the suggestedItems. The method should take one string argument, submitted value