Jquery catching click event on jquery ui autocomplete
i have been trying to figure this out lately but i can't the problem is that i have an input field with type text that i need to get the current input data when the values from the autocomplete are selected. Note i am using jQuery UI autocomplete. i can catch the keyup event but when a user uses clicks on the autocomplete values. jQuery does not fire the change event handler, i tried using every event handler there is but to no avail. i think it cannot catch a DOM based manipulation of an element? i'm not sure. here is a fiddle Like this http://jsfiddle.net/PUpRr/ select options should do the