title: jquery autocomplete not working in ie
body: <p>works beautifully in firefox and chrome but ie give an error:</p>
  
  <p><strong>"name is null or not an object"</strong></p>
  
  <p>i have posted the line that is failing in IE in bold below.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("#toemail").autocomplete(emails, {  
      minChars: 0,  
      width: 310,  
      matchContains: true,  
      autoFill: false,  
      formatItem: function(row, i, max) {  
          return i + "/" + max + ": \"" + row.name + "\" [" + row.to + "]";  
      },  
      formatMatch: function(row, i, max) {  
          **return row.name + " " + row.to;**  
      },  
      formatResult: function(row) {  
          return row.to;  
      }
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>EDIT: i figured it out ... answered below.</p>