Question

I’m trying to trigger autocomplete list on focus or click event. This solution helps, but when i click input field second time, nothing happens: list doesn’t appear.

$('input').autocomplete({
  source: ["1","2"],
  minLength: 0 
}).focus(function(){
  $(this).trigger('keydown.autocomplete');
});

i tried this variant – no good

$(this).keydown();

this line works well in same place:

$(this).attr('value,new Date());

p.s. jQuery UI 1.8.16, jQuery v1.7.1

Answer 1

You could use

$('input').autocomplete({
  source: ["1","2"],
  minLength: 0 
}).focus(function(){
  $(this).autocomplete('search');
});