The issue here was the spaces/tabs on the contents of the

Also anything that should not be included as text in the input field needs to be wrapped with a block

hrmmm guess this box doesn't escape or strip some html tags.

The issue here was the spaces/tabs on the contents of the <li> tags. It looks like the auto_complete has an issue with this and doesn't strip out the newlines correctly when they are present.

Also anything that should not be included as text in the input field needs to be wrapped with a <span class="informal"> block

(Try #2)