jQuery autoComplete view all on click?

Question

I\'m using jQuery\'s autocomplete in a relatively simple way:

$(document).ready(function() {
  var data = [ {text: \"Choice 1\"}, 
               {text: \"Ch         


        

Answer 1

You can trigger this event to show all of the options:

$("#example").autocomplete( "search", "" );

Or see the example in the link below. Looks like exactly what you want to do.

http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/#combobox

EDIT (from @cnanney)

Note: You must set minLength: 0 in your autocomplete for an empty search string to return all elements.