Is it possible to set the width of a jQuery autocomplete combobox?

Question

I am using this jQuery UI combobox autocomplete control out of the box off the jQuery UI website:

My issue is that I have multiple comboboxes on a page, and I want t

Answer 1

JavaScript

var $myinput = $('#myinput').autocomplete({source: ['ABC', 'BCD', 'CDE']})
$myinput.data('autocomplete').menu.element.addClass('myautocomplete');

CSS

.myautocomplete{width:300px!important;}

You can't set the width directly, because it will get overwritten. But you can set the min-width directly.

var $myinput = $('#myinput').autocomplete({source: ['ABC', 'BCD', 'CDE']})
$myinput.data('autocomplete').menu.element.css('min-width', '300px');