Autocomplete: should not allow to select a disabled item of its menu with the ENTER key

[paftek75]

​http://jsbin.com/AyuNiyem/2 (press "a", move with arrow keys and select with ENTER) Disabled cannot be selected with the mouse (the embedded menu widget is doing right here) but is it possible with the keyboard.

Maybe calls of "this.menu.select( event )" should by surrounded by a check of the state of "this.menu.active" ?

[tj.vantoll]

I'm going to mark this as valid as it seems like a legitimate use case and problem to me. At the very least we could make it easy to extend autocomplete to change this behavior; currently it's embedded in a keydown handler deep within _create().

[robotdan]

​https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/pull/1163

Updated test case w/ patch from pull request. ​http://jsfiddle.net/robotdan/j93LM/

[Scott González]

Here's a one-off implementation showing how to do this with the standard public API: ​http://jsbin.com/AyuNiyem/4/edit

[Scott González]

And here's an extension that doesn't even let the focus or select events occur for disabled items: ​http://jsbin.com/AyuNiyem/5/edit

[Scott González]

#14915 is a duplicate of this ticket.