jQuery UI Autocomplete disable Select & Close events

Question

I\'m using jQuery UI\'s Autocomplete slightly differently than it was probably created to do.

Basically I want to keep all the same functionality, the only differenc

Answer 1

I tried the various ideas others have presented here without success.

I am using Jquery 2.1.4 with UI 1.11.4 and this is how I got this to work:

Javascript:

CSS:

Backend Source "lookup_processor.php":

$data['id'], 
            'label'=>$data['label'], 
            'value'=>$data['value'], 
            'selectable'=>$data['some_thing_to_check']>0?true:false, // This is the parameter our 'select:' function is looking for
            'send_it_all_if_you_want'=>json_encode($data)); // this is just an example of how you can send back anything you want 
         );
     }

    // send the results back to autocomplete
    echo json_encode($search_results);
    exit;

?>