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 went down a slightly different route for this and expanded on Andrew's fiddle

The purpose being that I always wanted the auto-complete to show whilst a certain input had focus - allowing for multiple selections.

$("#myInput").autocomplete({
    source: ["Test", "This", "Doesnt", "Close"],
    minLength: 0,
    select: function (event, ui) {
        // Add your own custom login to manipulate ui.item.label and add what you need the input field (and ui.item.value if required.)
        // We've customised how we want the select to "work" so prevent the default
        // of auto clearing the input.    
        event.preventDefault();
    },
    close : function(event)
    {
        // We're closing the autocomplete - check if the input still has focus...
        if ($("#myInput").is(":focus"))
        {
            // Prevent the auto complete from closing.
            event.preventDefault();

            // Make sure we're reshowing the autcomplete - since the input would have momentarily
            // lost focus when we selected an item.
            $("#myInput").autocomplete("search", "")
        }        
    }
});

$("#myInput").focus(function () {
    // We're not taking any filtering into account for this example.
    $(this).autocomplete("search", "")
});