I am creating a dynamic form for a hospital. Here i have a problem with data-autocomplete. The problem is after updating json array to data-autocomplete=' ' it is not updating the value of data-autocomplete=' '. AS I am using html(bootstrap) and php templete for my frontend forms so,all links are properly arrenged and one input element similar to this is working fine but i have updated the values using php for that input.

Html code

<input type='text' class="form-control ui-autocomplete-input" data-autocomplete='' autocomplete="off" id="patient_type_desc" name="patient_type_desc" class="form-control" />

JQuery Code

$.post(url, {"referral":referral}, function(data){
   //console.log(data);
   $('#patient_type_desc').attr('data-autocomplete', data);
});

This code is updating the value, but in form autocomplete is not populating with suggestions.

The data variable is like below

["name1","name2"]

I tried with this jQuery code also but no use - This code not at all working

$( "#patient_type_desc" ).autocomplete({
  source: data
});

My Jquery is like this now

$.post(url, {"referral":referral}, function(data){
                //console.log(data);
                $( "#patient_type_desc" ).autocomplete({
                    source: data
                });
                    //$('#patient_type_desc').attr('data-autocomplete', data);
                }, "json");

Finally working by adding "json". Thank you for all bro's.

Please check below code, find the fiddle also here Fiddle . Hope this may help you.

<div class="form-group ui-widget">
<label for="plugins">Patient Type desc</label>
<input type='text' class="form-control ui-autocomplete-input" data-autocomplete='' autocomplete="off" id="patient_type_desc" name="patient_type_desc" class="form-control" />
</div>

<script>
  $(function()   
     var patient_type_desc = [
    "name1",
    "name2",
    "name3",
    "name4"
    ];

    $("#patient_type_desc").autocomplete({source: patient_type_desc});

    $("ul.ui-autocomplete").css("left","450px");

});
</script>

<style>
ul.ui-autocomplete { padding-left: 0; list-style-type: none; border: black 1px solid; display: inline-block;}
ul.ui-autocomplete li:hover { background-color: gray; }
ui-helper-hidden-accessible {display: none;}
</style>