jQuery UI Autocomplete with hybrid text/id search

Question

I\'m having a lot of trouble making jQuery\'s autocomplete widget work for me. I am using a list of key/value pairs from a server.

I have the following requirements

Answer 1

You can use event.preventDefault

Collect your selected values through ui.item.label or ui.item.value and get the needed value and set it to the same textbox.

var idNameCombo = ui.item.label;
            event.preventDefault();
            $("#mID").val(idNameCombo.split(",")[0].trim());