Autocomplete: Selected Text Trigger Usability Issue

[Gbiggs]

When you type a letter in an autocomplete box, the list pulls up. Click outside of the list (let's say a user hastily clicks and "misses" the list). The list box closes, when you select the letter and retype it - the list doesn't show up.

This doesn't happen if you type a different letter. It may be more a minor usability error, "Where did the list go? I retyped the letter. I know there are results!"

[cgack]

try it yourself at jsbin. ​http://jsbin.com/abeton/

[cgack]

committed to github - ​https://github.com/cgack/jquery-ui/blob/d003c58489c83bfa41ad/ui/jquery.ui.autocomplete.js

[Scott González]

#7787 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[Jörn Zaefferer]

The actual commit is this: ​https://github.com/cgack/jquery-ui/commit/d003c58489c83bfa41ad090a2071b420368287a9

While I can see the issue as valid, I don't think this approach is acceptable. We specifically don't want any key event to trigger a search, e.g. pressing modifier keys don't modify the input, so shouldn't trigger a search.

[frediani.adrien]

Committed to GitHub: ​https://github.com/frediana/jquery-ui/commit/bd56ab73d9fdcfee26ca5c7b1216d7ec2053c452

[Scott González]

#9329 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[tj.vantoll]

#9740 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[Scott González]

#9969 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[tj.vantoll]

PR: ​https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/pull/1238

This basically takes cgack's approach and accounts for modifier keys.

[TJ VanToll]

Autocomplete: Search if the user retypes the same value

Fixes #7434 Closes gh-1238

Changeset: 48001a8c46adc5d1d6c1726cecbe6453946e96e0