jQuery UI autocomplete select event not working with mouse click

Question

I have a list of links, and I have this search box #reportname. When the user types in the search box, autocomplete will show the text of the links in a list.

Answer 1

I was facing a similar problem. I wanted to submit the form when the user clicked on an option. But the form got submitted even before the value of the input could be set. Hence on the server side the controller got a null value.

I solved it using a modified version of William Niu's answer.

Check this post - https://stackoverflow.com/a/19781850/1565521