jQuery Autocomplete .data(“autocomplete”) is undefined

Question

When I try to implement auto-complete using the code below I get an error stating:

.data(\"autocomplete\") is undefined

How ever if I remove th

Answer 1

If you look at the latest example of combobox on the site demo, you will see they use data('ui-Autocomplete'). I ran into the same problem as you. I was previously using jquery-1.6.2 and jquery-ui-1.8.16. Once I updated my files to jquery-1.9.1 and jquery-ui-1.10.0 the error was fixed. I assume the older jquery-ui autocomplete was not setting the data('ui-Autocomplete') property, therefore it was null/undefined when retrieved. I hope this helps other people since you probably already fixed the issue.