#5971 closed bug (notabug)

Opened August 18, 2010 08:12PM UTC

Closed August 18, 2010 08:18PM UTC

Last modified October 11, 2012 09:15PM UTC

When scrollling through autocomplete suggestions using up/down arrow keys, highlighted text is copied to the input element, which may make it appear that a selection has been made

Reported by:	ryounes	Owned by:
Priority:	minor	Milestone:
Component:	ui.autocomplete	Version:	1.8.2
Keywords:	autocomplete, scroll, arrow key, selection	Cc:
Blocked by:		Blocking:

Description

This can be tested on the jQuery UI autocomplete demo pages: when scrolling through the list of autocomplete suggestions using up/down arrow keys, the highlighted text is copied to the input element. This does not happen when hovering over a suggestion with the mouse. I have seen it confuse a user into thinking that a selection has been made, although the select event is not actually fired until the user either presses the enter key or clicks on the item with the mouse. I have checked out other autocomplete widgets and have not seen this behavior.

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Changed August 18, 2010 08:18PM UTC by scottgonzalez comment:1

resolution:	→ invalid
status:	new → closed

This is by design. This is exactly how Firefox's location bar work, which is the model that we're following.

Changed September 14, 2010 07:25PM UTC by danheberden comment:2

A quick note, this behavior can easily be disabled by halting the focus event.

e.g.

jQuery('#element').autocomplete({
       focus: function(event, ui) {
            event.preventDefault(); // or return false;
       }
});

Changed October 11, 2012 09:15PM UTC by scottgonzalez comment:3

milestone:	TBD

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