- // delegate back to autocomplete, but extract the last term
- response( $.ui.autocomplete.filter(
- availableTags, extractLast( request.term ) ) );
+ // if the term is >2 in legth delegate back to autocomplete
+ if (extractLast ( request.term ).length < 3) {
+ response( [] );
+ } else {
+ response( $.ui.autocomplete.filter(
+ availableTags, extractLast( request.term ) ) );
+ }