Angular JS - Automatically focus input and show typeahead dropdown - ui.bootstrap.typeahead

Question

I am using Angular JS - ui.bootstrap.typeahead:

I would like to click a button and focus an input field and automatically show the typeahead suggestion dropdown. I h

Answer 1

Seems like built-in support for this feature is coming in an upcoming release in the form of typeahead-min-length attribute supporting value of 0.

It is implemented in this commit in the master branch https://github.com/angular-ui/bootstrap/commit/d859f42cc022a5d8779f1c7b358486bbdd04ed57, but there is no release with this yet and it's not in the 0.14.x branch.

Hopefully a new release will come quickly so that there is no need for these workarounds anymore.