Question

I placed all code below. My page works like that

Page’s first scene

When i choose something from #menu it fires $("#menu").change(function () function and i’m getting scene like that

Radio buttons .parentcheck are located in div #options. They’re like turn off (first one)/on (second one) select-box #parent.

When i turn #parentselectbox on, it fires genopts- ajax request and on success it transforms select-box into jquery-ui autocomplete combobox and places default value.

Now, the problem is following

• I’m using input.val( $("#parent option:selected").text()); (in combobox configuration) to place default value. The problem is i want to remove this text onclick (something like html5 placeholder but i want crossbrowser support). How to modify the combobox configuration part to fix that problem?

HTML Markup

  <table>
    <tr>
      <td><label for="menu" id="menu_label">Səhifə harada yerləşəcək?</label>
        <select name="menu" id="menu">
          <option value="" selected="selected">Birini seçin...</option>
          <option value="1">Header menyuya əlavə et</option>
          <option value="2">Footer menyuya əlavə et</option>
          <option value="0">Bu səhhifənin menyuda adı olmayacaq</option>
        </select></td>
      <td><div id="options">
          <input type="radio" class="parentcheck" name="parentcheck" value="0"/>
          Ayrıca yoxsa
          <input type="radio" class="parentcheck" name="parentcheck" value="1"/>
          hansısa başlıq altında? </div>
        <select name="parent" id="parent">
        </select></td>
    </tr>
  </table>

The combobox configuration

(function( $ ) {
    $.widget( "ui.combobox", {
        _create: function() {
            var self = this,
                select = this.element.hide(),
                selected = select.children( ":selected" ),
                value = selected.val() ? selected.text() : "";
            var input = this.input = $( "<input>" )
                .insertAfter( select )
                .val( value )
                .autocomplete({
                    delay: 0,
                    minLength: 0,
                    source: function( request, response ) {
                        var matcher = new RegExp( $.ui.autocomplete.escapeRegex(request.term), "i" );
                        response( select.children( "option" ).map(function() {
                            var text = $( this ).text();
                            if ( this.value && ( !request.term || matcher.test(text) ) )
                                return {
                                    label: text.replace(
                                        new RegExp(
                                            "(?![^&;]+;)(?!<[^<>]*)(" +
                                            $.ui.autocomplete.escapeRegex(request.term) +
                                            ")(?![^<>]*>)(?![^&;]+;)", "gi"
                                        ), "<strong>$1</strong>" ),
                                    value: text,
                                    option: this
                                };
                        }) );
                    },
                    select: function( event, ui ) {
                        ui.item.option.selected = true;
                        self._trigger( "selected", event, {
                            item: ui.item.option
                        });
                    },
                    change: function( event, ui ) {
                        if ( !ui.item ) {
                            var matcher = new RegExp( "^" + $.ui.autocomplete.escapeRegex( $(this).val() ) + "$", "i" ),
                                valid = false;
                            select.children( "option" ).each(function() {
                                if ( $( this ).text().match( matcher ) ) {
                                    this.selected = valid = true;
                                    return false;
                                }
                            });
                            if ( !valid ) {
                                // remove invalid value, as it didn't match anything
                                $( this ).val( "" );
                                select.val( "" );
                                input.data( "autocomplete" ).term = "";
                                return false;
                            }
                        }
                    }
                })
                .addClass( "ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-corner-left" );
                input.val( $("#parent option:selected").text());
            input.data( "autocomplete" )._renderItem = function( ul, item ) {
                return $( "<li></li>" )
                    .data( "item.autocomplete", item )
                    .append( "<a>" + item.label + "</a>" )
                    .appendTo( ul );
            };

            this.button = $( "<button type='button'>&nbsp;</button>" )
                .attr( "tabIndex", -1 )
                .attr( "title", "Show All Items" )
                .insertAfter( input )
                .button({
                    icons: {
                        primary: "ui-icon-triangle-1-s"
                    },
                    text: false
                })
                .removeClass( "ui-corner-all" )
                .addClass( "ui-corner-right ui-button-icon" )
                .click(function() {
                    // close if already visible
                    if ( input.autocomplete( "widget" ).is( ":visible" ) ) {
                        input.autocomplete( "close" );
                        return;
                    }

                    // work around a bug (likely same cause as #5265)
                    $( this ).blur();

                    // pass empty string as value to search for, displaying all results
                    input.autocomplete( "search", "" );
                    input.focus();
                });
        },

        destroy: function() {
            this.input.remove();
            this.button.remove();
            this.element.show();
            $.Widget.prototype.destroy.call( this );
        }
    });
})( jQuery );

Answer 1

1st problem answer:

http://forum.jquery.com/topic/disable-autocomplete

2nd problem answer:

You can put this text to the title attribute of the your input and then on focus check your value if it’s the same as in title. Change your input.val( $("#parent option:selected").text()); to:

var emptyText = $("#parent option:selected").text();
input.attr('title', emptyText).val(emptyText);
input.focus(function() {
   var $this = $(this);
   if ($this.val() == $this.attr('title')) {
      $this.val('');
   }
});
input.blur(function() {
    var $this = $(this);
    if ($this.val() == '')
        $this.val($this.attr('title'));
});