jQuery UI AutoComplete 1.8 - Menu item click does not always fire

Can't reproduce.

Please consider re-opening this bug.

I am also experiencing this bug when clicking slowly. This is how to reproduce:

• Use browser Firefox 3.5 or IE8 (not tested with other browsers).
• Use demo at
• Position the mouse-pointer above "Java" (bug is independent of what element you select)
• Press AND HOLD left mouse button for more than 150 milliseconds, for example for 2 seconds
• Observe that the autocomplete-menu is hidden before any selection is registered, and therefore no selection is done when you release the mouse button (to complete the slow click)

I have created a workaround for myself. It is to register an event-handler for "mousedown" on the ui-menu that is exactly as "click". The disadvantage with this workaround is that selection is very quick, so the end-user may be a bit surprised... The workaround is:

$.widget("ui.menu", {
	_create: function() {
		var self = this;
		this.element
			.addClass("ui-menu ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-corner-all")
			.attr({
				role: "listbox",
				"aria-activedescendant": "ui-active-menuitem"
			})
			.click(function( event ) {
				if ( !$( event.target ).closest( ".ui-menu-item a" ).length ) {
					return;
				}
				// temporary
				event.preventDefault();
				self.select( event );
			})
			.mousedown(function( event ) { // Bugfix by Eirik Wahl: Select element on mousedown (and not only on click) to do a select before blur on the autocomplete-menu (whick happens after 150 milliseconds).
				if ( !$( event.target ).closest( ".ui-menu-item a" ).length ) {
					return;
				}
				// temporary
				event.preventDefault();
				self.select( event );
			});
		this.refresh();
	},

Duplicate of #5405.

Milestone TBD deleted