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

This worked for me.

$( document ).ready(function() {
    $('#the-basics .typeahead').typeahead({
      hint: false,
      highlight: true,
      minLength: 0
    },
    {
      name: 'states',
      displayKey: 'value',
      source: substringMatcher(states)
    });

    //set a value to input to trigger opening
    $(".typeahead").eq(0).val("a").trigger("input");
    //remove value for end user
    $(".typeahead").eq(0).val("");

});

See here for example: http://joshuamaynard.com/sandbox/autocomplete