Question

jquery, textbox with autocomplete, change event problem:

I have a textbox which is used to show some suggestion (doesnt matter what).
No problem at all, works well, but I have big problems to solve this:

1. the user enters some characters in the textbox, like “abcd”.
2. the suggestion list is shown
3. the user leaves the textbox instead of selecting a suggestion.
   Means the autocomplete textbox contains still the characters “abcd”.

What I want:
The suggestion list for “abcd” should again shown when the user clicks again in the autocomplete textbox.

Thx in advance.

Answer 1

I would do something like this on focus

$("input#searchField").focus(function(){
    $(this).autocomplete( "search" , this.value );
});