django-autocomplete-light's purpose is to enable autocompletes quickly and properly in a django project: it is the fruit of half a decade of R&D and thousands of contributions. It was designed for Django so that every part overridable or reusable independently. It is stable, tested, documented and fully supported: it tries to be a good neighbour in Django ecosystem.

Projects upgrading to Django 1.9

DAL has been ready for Django 1.9 since April 2015 thanks to @blueyed & @jpic. HOWEVER due to the app loading refactor in 1.9 you should apply the following:

find . -name '*.py' | xargs perl -i -pe 's/import autocomplete_light/from autocomplete_light import shortcuts as autocomplete_light/'

See the test_project running on Django 1.9 and its new cool admin theme: http://dal-yourlabs.rhcloud.com/admin (test:test).

Features

Features include:

• charfield, foreign key, many to many autocomplete widgets,
• generic foreign key, generic many to many autocomplete widgets,
• django template engine support for autocompletes, enabling you to include images etc ...
• 100% overridable HTML, CSS, Python and Javascript: there is no variable hidden far down in the scope anywhere.
• add-another popup supported outside the admin too.
• keyboard is supported with enter, tab and arrows by default.
• Django 1.7 to 1.10, PyPy, Python 2 and 3, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL

Each feature has a live example and is fully documented. It is also designed and documented so that you create your own awesome features too.

Resources

Resources include:

• **Documentation** graciously hosted by RTFD
• Live demo graciously hosted by RedHat, thanks to PythonAnywhere for hosting it in the past,
• Video demo graciously hosted by Youtube,
• Mailing list graciously hosted by Google
• Git graciously hosted by GitHub,
• Package graciously hosted by PyPi,
• Continuous integration graciously hosted by Travis-ci
• **Online paid support** provided via HackHands,