title: Netbeans JQuery Selector auto-complete
body: <p>I can't get Netbeans to auto-complete my selectors for JQuery, example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a id="hello" href="#"&gt;Hello&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
      $("|").hide();
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As far as i understand the documentation at this point it should show the tags available on the page when i press control+space at the | position, but instead displays no suggestions. Links [1] and [2] shows clearly that this has been implemented. I have not tried prototype, link [2] shows that JQuery support has been added as well.</p>
  
  <p>The auto-complete of functions works perfectly, with the embedded library of JQuery 1.4.2, it is only the selector auto-complete that does not work. Any suggestions?</p>
  
  <p>[1] <a href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/JavaScript#Embedded_Completion" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://wiki.netbeans.org/JavaScript#Embedded_Completion</a></p>
  
  <p>[2] <a href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/JavaScript#Recently_Added" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://wiki.netbeans.org/JavaScript#Recently_Added</a></p>
  
  <pre><code>Product Version: NetBeans IDE 6.8 (Build 200912041610)
  Java: 1.6.0_18; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 16.0-b13
  System: Windows XP version 5.1 running on x86; Cp1252; en_US (nb)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>5 years later update:</strong></p>
  
  <p>As of at least version 8.0.2 Netbeans now properly auto-completes jQuery selectors in both php and html pages. I am unsure if this is due to some other changes on the editor engine or they finally caught the discrepancy but either way it works now, yay!</p>