How do you trigger autocomplete “select” event manually in jQueryUI?

Question

I\'m using jQueryUI autocomplete, and I have a function mapped to the select event, e.g.:

$(\"#someId\").autocomplete({
    source: someData,
    select: fun         


        

Answer 1

From outside:

$($('#someId').data('autocomplete').menu.active).find('a').trigger('click');

An example how to setup select triggering at pressing of horizontal arrows keys from inside of "open" autocomplete event:

$('#someId').autocomplete({
    open: function(event, ui) {
        $(this).keydown(function(e){
            /* horizontal keys */
            if (e.keyCode == 37 || e.keyCode == 39) {
               $($(this).data('autocomplete').menu.active).find('a').trigger('click');
            }
        });
    }
});

Unfortunately that nice way how to solve this marked as "success" did not work at my app in chromium 140.0.835.200