How to prevent Twitter typeahead from filling in the input with the selected value?

Question

I\'m using Twitter\'s typeahead plugin for autocompletion with a text input. I want to change the behavior so that instead of putting the selected option\'s value into the t

Answer 1

Struggled with this for a while, before I found how to clear the text when you select an option:

$("#typeahead-input").on('typeahead:selected', function (event, datum, name) {
   $(this).typeahead("val", "");
   // Do something with the datum...
});