Advanced options

The address verification JavaScript widget is highly customisable to suit your needs. The installation instructions should allow you to get started quickly. Once this is done, you can further tweak the widget's behaviour using the options below.

Event listeners

You can subscribe to event notifications from the widget using the on() listener function. This method simply takes the event name, and a callback function.

(function(){
  var widget,
    initAF = function() {
      widget = new AddressFinder.Widget(
        document.getElementById('address_field'),
        'YOUR_KEY',
        'AU'
      );

      widget.on('result:select', function(value, item) {
        alert('You’ve selected: ' + value);
      });
    };

  function downloadAF(f){
    var script = document.createElement('script');
    script.src = 'https://api.addressfinder.io/assets/v3/widget.js';
    script.async = true;
    script.onload = f;
    document.body.appendChild(script);
  };

  document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){
    downloadAF(initAF);
  });

})();

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Take a look at the JavaScript reference docs to see what kind of events you can set listeners for.

Custom styling

Typically our JavaScript library embeds a stylesheet with some simple styling. However if you wish to apply your own CSS, that can be done with a few simple tweaks.

First, when initialising the widget, you’ll need to pass an option specifying not to embed its own stylesheet:

(function(){
  var widget,
    initAF = function() {
      widget = new AddressFinder.Widget(
        document.getElementById('address_field'),
        'YOUR_KEY',
        'AU',
        {manual_style:true}
      );
    };

  function downloadAF(f){
    var script = document.createElement('script');
    script.src = 'https://api.addressfinder.io/assets/v3/widget.js';
    script.async = true;
    script.onload = f;
    document.body.appendChild(script);
  };

  document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){
    downloadAF(initAF);
  });

})();

Then include some CSS in a stylesheet like so:

ul.af_list {
  list-style: none;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  border: solid 1px #666;
  background: white;
}
li.af_item {
  cursor: pointer;
}
li.af_hover {
  background-color: steelblue;
  color: white;
}
li.af_footer {
  font-size: 0.8em;
  color: #666;
  text-align: right;
}

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Adding third-party search services

It’s possible to include additional search results in the autocomplete results, by providing a function to carry out the searching. The search function will be passed two arguments, the query and a callback function. The callback function requires you to pass back the original query and an array of formatted results.

(function(){
  var widget,
    store_service,
    stores = ['Queen Street, Brisbane','Cuba Road, Tasmania', 'Oxford Street, Sydney', 'Eureka Tower, Melbourne'],
    initAF = function() {
      widget = new AddressFinder.Widget(
        document.getElementById('address_field'),
        'YOUR_KEY',
        'AU'
      );

      store_service = widget.addService('store-search',function(query, response_fn){
        var regex = new RegExp(query, 'gi');
        var matches = stores.filter(function(store){
          return regex.test(store);
        });
        var results = matches.map(function(match){
          return { value: match }
        });
        response_fn(query, results);
      });

      store_service.setOption('renderer', function(value){
        return "<div class="store_result">" + value + "</div>"
      });
    };

  function downloadAF(f){
    var script = document.createElement('script');
    script.src = 'https://api.addressfinder.io/assets/v3/widget.js';
    script.async = true;
    script.onload = f;
    document.body.appendChild(script);
  };

  document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){
    downloadAF(initAF);
  });

})();

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Support for Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD)

By default the widget.js package includes dependencies which can cause problems with AMD libraries such as Require.js, especially when the Addressfinder is loaded after the AMD library. As the core library needs to be loaded from our remote server, we’re providing a special core.js library, which allows you to include the dependencies (reqwest and neat-complete) in your own project.

The best point reference is our example project on GitHub.

The core.js is compatible with all modern browsers. Internet Explorer is supported for versions 10+.