Autocomplete combobox issues

[Jörn Zaefferer]

From ​http://forum.jquery.com/topic/autocomplete-combobox-from-documentation-bugs:

The autocomplete combobox has the following bugs:

   1. submits forms when you select an item
   2. does not take into account the initially selected option
   3. you cannot set the value of the combobox programatically

I solved these issues and the code I added will work for jQuery ui 1.8.

Note: I also have a 'set_empty' call that will only set the combobx if it is empty.  I was using this for starting with a value if one had not been previously set.  Feel free to rip it out if you don't want/need it.

Initializing the input with the value of the select is a no-brainer. Need to look at the others. The provided implementation would need to be refactored to use the set-method in the select-event.

In Chrome 5, enter a charakter and backspace: The resulting menu gets way too wide.

[gavimobile]

can you give us a full working example.

i applied the code and it works but i want to POST values which arent in the dropdown and get the value with php. eg. echo $_POSTcombobox_field?;

thanks

[Scott González]

Fixed initial value in ​123467a.

[Scott González]

Fixed form submission in ​e85615f.

[Scott González]

Please open separate tickets for any remaining features. For setting a value programmatically, you can currently do:

$("#combobox").next().val("java").blur();

We can flesh out more functionality when this is an actual plugin and not just a demo.

[dvdckl]

This commit broke the use case where the user is allowed to submit text by hitting enter in order to ignore search suggestions shown in the autocomplete widget: ​e85615f

Is there a recommended workaround? Can we make this behavior an option of autocomplete?

[Scott González]

That change has actually been reverted in master and will go out with 1.8.6.