This bug was actually previous reported here ​http://bugs.jqueryui.com/ticket/8847 , but was closed in part because the original reporter didn't fully identify what was causing the problem. After finding the report and reading the reporters last comment, I confirmed that his fiddle did in fact still not pass the selected item.

Here are two fiddles, based on the fiddle from the jquery.ui team member and the reporter. They're exactly the same except that in the faulty one the focus is taken away from the input field in the select callback. It can be taken away various ways (hence the commented out lines) and they all result in null being passed to the change event.

If the input is blurred by the user instead of by JS, it works just fine. I've tested on Firefox 24.4 and Chromium 33.

Working fiddle:​http://jsfiddle.net/MelvinRoss/krc4f/1/ Not-working fiddle: ​http://jsfiddle.net/MelvinRoss/ET4RJ/4/

We would like to build jquery ui in debian from the source repo. We already have grunt 1.0.1 in debian, but jquery-ui is using grunt 0.4.5. When we try to build jquery ui using grunt 1.0.1 , we get the following error,

$ grunt --verbose
Initializing
Command-line options: --verbose

Reading "Gruntfile.js" Gruntfile...OK

Registering Gruntfile tasks.
Loading "Gruntfile.js" tasks...ERROR
>> TypeError: grunt.util._.pluck is not a function
>>   at expandFiles (/home/pravi/forge/debian/git/pkg-javascript/jqueryui/Gruntfile.js:95:22)
>>   at Object.module.exports (/home/pravi/forge/debian/git/pkg-javascript/jqueryui/Gruntfile.js:21:13)
>>   at loadTask (/usr/lib/nodejs/grunt/lib/grunt/task.js:318:10)
>>   at Task.task.init (/usr/lib/nodejs/grunt/lib/grunt/task.js:437:5)
>>   at Object.grunt.tasks (/usr/lib/nodejs/grunt/lib/grunt.js:111:8)
>>   at Object.module.exports [as cli] (/usr/lib/nodejs/grunt/lib/grunt/cli.js:27:9)
>>   at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/nodejs/grunt-cli/bin/grunt:49:20)
>>   at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
>>   at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
>>   at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
>>   at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
>>   at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:441:10)
>>   at startup (node.js:139:18)
>>   at node.js:974:3

Please make it possible to build jquery-ui using grunt 1.0.1

I guess it should either be automatic or optional.

If its intended that the user should be able to select a group, then an option should enable it. Otherwise i think that the first autofocused element should be the first "Real" element

eg: if item_0 = Group => select item_1 if item_0 = Group and item_1 = Group (Group_0 = empty), then select item_2...

it makes no sense to select an element that can't be selected.