Programmatically triggering typeahead.js result display

Question

I am using Twitter\'s typeahead.js (https://github.com/twitter/typeahead.js/) on an input field which is pre filled from a query string. After loading the page, i\'d like to

Answer 1

As of Typeahead v0.10.1, changing the value of the typeahead will trigger another query and open the dropdown:

var val = $(".typeahead").typeahead('val');
$(".typeahead").typeahead('val', '');
$(".typeahead").typeahead('val', val);