How to enable code hinting using codemirror?

Question

I am using codemirror to allow the user to type anycode like css/html/js.

I need to enable if the user type something like in css mode

div {
 padding-
}

It should hint the user to chose the available options from the list like

div {
padding-top
padding-left
padding-right
padding-bottom
}

Something like sublime editor using codemirror. Please see the attached image for the demo of sublime auto hinting

Here is my code:

 <script src="codemirror-5.4/mode/javascript/javascript.js"></script>
  <script src="codemirror-5.4/mode/css/css.js"></script>
  <script src="codemirror-5.4/mode/htmlmixed/htmlmixed.js"></script>
  <script src="codemirror-5.4/addon/display/fullscreen.js"></script>
  <script src="codemirror-5.4/keymap/sublime.js"></script>
  <script src="codemirror-5.4/addon/hint/show-hint.js"></script>
  <script src="codemirror-5.4/addon/hint/css-hint.js"></script>
  <script src="codemirror-5.4/addon/hint/javascript.js"></script>

<h3>Editor</h3>
  <div class="control-group">
    <label class="control-label" for="textarea2">HTML</label>
    <div class="controls">
        <textarea class="code" name="code" id="codert" cols="40" rows="5" placeholder="Enter code here ..." style="width: 810px; height: 200px">
       </textarea>
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="control-group">
        <label class="control-label" for="textarea3">CSS</label>
        <div class="controls">
          <textarea id="code" class="code" name="codeCSS"  cols="40" rows="5" placeholder="Enter code here ..." style="width: 810px; height: 200px">
        </textarea>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="control-group">
        <label class="control-label" for="textarea3">javascript</label>
        <div class="controls">
            <textarea id="codeJS" class="code" name="codeJS"  cols="40" rows="5" placeholder="Enter code here ..." style="width: 0px; height: 0px">
           </textarea>
        </div>
    </div>

JavaScript code for codemirror

<script>

   function loadCSS() {
    var $head = $("#preview").contents().find("head");                
    $head.html("<style>" + editor.getValue() + "</style>");
}; 

function loadJS() {
    var scriptTag = "<script>"+editorJS.getValue()+"<";
    scriptTag +=  "/script>";

    var previewFrame2 = document.getElementById('preview');
    var preview2 =  previewFrame2.contentDocument ||  previewFrame2.contentWindow.document;
    preview2.open();
    preview2.write(editor2.getValue()+scriptTag);
    preview2.close();

    loadCSS();
};

var delay;
// Initialize CodeMirror editor with a nice html5 canvas demo.

// css editor
var editor = CodeMirror.fromTextArea(document.getElementById('code'), {
    lineNumbers: true,
    styleActiveLine: true,
    matchBrackets: true,
    mode: "text/x-scss",
    keyMap: "sublime",
    theme: 'monokai',
    autoCloseTags: true,
    lineWrapping: true,
    extraKeys: {"Ctrl-Space": "autocomplete"}
});
editor.on("change", function() {
    clearTimeout(delay);

    delay = setTimeout(updatePreview, 0);
});

function updatePreview() {
    loadCSS();
}
setTimeout(updatePreview, 0);


var delay2;
// Initialize CodeMirror editor with a nice html5 canvas demo.
var editor2 = CodeMirror.fromTextArea(document.getElementById('codert'), {
    lineNumbers: true,
    styleActiveLine: true,
    matchBrackets: true,
    mode: "text/html",
    keyMap: "sublime",
    theme: 'monokai',
    autoCloseTags: true,
    lineWrapping: true,
    extraKeys: {"Ctrl-Space": "autocomplete"}
});
editor2.on("change", function() {
    clearTimeout(delay2);

    delay2 = setTimeout(updatePreview2, 0);
});

function updatePreview2() {
    var scriptTag = "<script>"+editorJS.getValue()+"<";
    scriptTag +=  "/script>";

    var previewFrame2 = document.getElementById('preview');
    var preview2 =  previewFrame2.contentDocument ||  previewFrame2.contentWindow.document;
    preview2.open();
    preview2.write(editor2.getValue()+scriptTag);
    preview2.close();

    loadCSS();
}
setTimeout(updatePreview2, 0);


var delayJS;
// Initialize CodeMirror editor with a nice html5 canvas demo.
var editorJS = CodeMirror.fromTextArea(document.getElementById('codeJS'), {
    lineNumbers: true,
    styleActiveLine: true,
    matchBrackets: true,
    mode: 'javascript',
    keyMap: "sublime",
    theme: 'monokai',
    autoCloseTags: true,
    lineWrapping: true,
    extraKeys: {"Ctrl-Space": "autocomplete"}
});
editorJS.on("change", function() {
    clearTimeout(delayJS);

    delayJS = setTimeout(updatePreviewJS, 0);
});

function updatePreviewJS() {
    loadJS();
}
setTimeout(updatePreviewJS, 0);
</script>

Answer 1

You didn't post all the code so I could be wrong, but make sure to add the show-hint.css stylesheet to the page header.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="../addon/hint/show-hint.css">

Otherwise, the hints just don't show up and I for one assumed the autocomplete function was not working.