jquery autocomplete get selected item text

Question

I am wondering how to grab the selected item\'s text value on jquery autocomplete.

I have initialised jquery as following :

$(document).ready(function ()         


        

Answer 1

// list of clients
        $( "#client" ).autocomplete({
        source: "lib/getClientList.php",
        minLength: 2,
        select: function(event, ui) {
            alert(ui.item.value);
             }
        })

;

The ui.item.value is the reference that jquery utilizes to assign a value to the input