Netbeans JQuery Selector auto-complete

Question

I can't get Netbeans to auto-complete my selectors for JQuery, example:

<a id="hello" href="#">Hello</a>
<script type="text/javascript">
    $("|").hide();
</script>

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.

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?

[1] http://wiki.netbeans.org/JavaScript#Embedded_Completion

[2] http://wiki.netbeans.org/JavaScript#Recently_Added

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)

5 years later update:

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!

Answer 1

Link 1 says that there is code completion on element ids that appear in the html itself. They also say that it works with Prototype.js. I believe that it would work for jquery too, but don't forget - in order to select an element using it id in jquery you do $('#id') - with #.

What they meant in their example if you have $("f|") is that if you start writing $("f and the cursor of typing is after the f (they put "|" in order to mark the cursor), then code completion should show all relevant elements.

Try that:
in html: <div id="blabla">12345</div>
in jscript: $('bl');
after the bl press control+space, and I believe that it will display to you blabla.

Answer 2

Naor answer made me rethink what I was doing, but it didn't quite answer my question. So let me provide the solution I found in case anyone is interested.

When working with netbeans, the auto-complete function behaves differently between php files and html. In html jquery selectors auto-completes as expected. But when trying to do the same within a php file in an html section of code, it will fail to auto-complete.

Just make sure that if you are expecting this feature to work, that you are using html files, not php. I will submit this as a feature/bug to the netbeans guys, hopefully they can fix it and make html/js auto-completion available to all file types that can include html/js code.