Question

Have an issue with jquery autocomplete, focus function

After i type something in the input, the autocomplete dropdown a list of suggestion options.
but when selecting something in that ‘dropdown options’ with the keyboard or mouse hover, it triggers change in the default input value.

how do i unbind this action, i want it to remain the default val() until the option is selected.

.autocomplete({
   options?
});

Answer 1

Just call preventDefault on the event supplied to the focus handler:

$("#auto").autocomplete({
    /*...*/
    focus: function(event, ui) {
        event.preventDefault();
    }
});

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/andrewwhitaker/qbETA/