Question

I am using YUI 3 to create an autocomplete box in which I would like to force the selection and require the user to select a result from the container, or else the input field is cleared of whatever value they have typed in manually.
forceSelectionwas a feature in the YUI 2 Autocomplete widget and info here.
But… it does not look like it has been added to the new YUI 3 version yet.here’s the open ticket.
I would just use YUI 2 Autocomplete, however I am already using other improved features that came with YUI 3.

Is there an easy way to implement this manually for YUI 3?

Answer 1

Ryan Grove from the YUI team recently posted this:

This feature is currently targeted for 3.5.0.
In the meantime, it’s not too hard to implement forced selection by hooking into AutoComplete events.
Here’s a very basic example that you could build on:
http://jsfiddle.net/rgrove/aJcqt/