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

Here's a simplified version of @Sam_Butler's work: http://jsfiddle.net/rimian/hrnf9

Crick

Javascript:

$('#button').click(function() {
  $("#text").focus().typeahead('val', 'London');
});

// instantiate the bloodhound suggestion engine
var locations = new Bloodhound({
    datumTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.obj.whitespace('value'),
    queryTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.whitespace,
    remote: {
        url: 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=%QUERY&components=country:GB&sensor=false®ion=uk', //add key
        filter: function (locations) {
            return $.map(locations.results, function (location) {
                return {
                    value: location.formatted_address
                };
            });
        }
    }
});

locations.initialize();

$('#text').typeahead(null, {
    name: 'value',
    displayKey: 'value',
    source: locations.ttAdapter()
});