>Just being told I can replicate my application in html and css isn't helping.
You can't. But do you really need to? Couldn't your webpage work without suggestions popping up as query is typed into the input box? Your webpage should not stop working if you can't validate user input client side, etc... .
You can't. But do you really need to? Couldn't your webpage work without suggestions popping up as query is typed into the input box? Your webpage should not stop working if you can't validate user input client side, etc... .
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement