jquery-ui-autocomplete

I am using jquery autocomplete combobox and everything is ok. But I also want to set specific value through JavaScript like $("#value").val("somevalue") and it set to select element, but no changes in input element with autocomplete. Of course, I can select this input and set value directly, but is it some other ways to do that? I try set bind to this.element like this.element.bind("change", function(){alert(1)}) but it was no effects. And I don't know why. Edit I found a workaround for this case. But I don't like it. I have added the following code to _create function for ui.combobox this

I'm trying to pass extra parameters for city and state using the jQuery UI autocomplete function. I've been trying to find an answer to this for a while but can't seem to find something that works for me. My current code is: $(document).ready(function () { $("#id_place").autocomplete({ source: function(request, response) { $.ajax({ url: "/autocomplete_place", dataType: "json", data: { term: request.term, city: $("id_city").val(), state: $("id_state").val(), test: 4 }, success: function(data) { response(data); } }); }, }); }); The autocomplete works, but its not passing my city and state

i am using the jquery ui autocomplete widget inside the jquery ui dialog. when i type in the search text, the textbox indents (ui-autocomplet-loading) but does not show any suggestions. var availableTags = ["c++", "java", "php", "coldfusion", "javascript", "asp", "ruby", "python", "c", "scala", "groovy", "haskell", "perl"]; $("#company").autocomplete({ source : availableTags , minLength: 2 }); company is the id of the textbox to attach the autocomplete. i thought it might be a z index so i set this: .ui-autocomplete, .ui-menu, .ui-menu-item { z-index: 1006; } but it still does not show. i put

I'm using the popular JQuery Autocomplete plugin below. http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/ Currently if you type a phrase the drop down appears but when you click away it hides. This is fine. However the only way to bring the dropdown back is to either click in the input field and type further characters or press keydown. Any ideas on how to trigger the dropdown of results when the user clicks in the input field? I've tried to trigger the focus event for the input field but that doesn't work. I somehow need to manually call the autocomplete dropdown event when the input field is focused.

I am trying to change the "term" field that is set to that by default with the jquery ui autocomplete feature. Is it possibly to easily change it to "q" (query) without going and changing it in the "core" file? JavaScript: <script> $(function() { $( "#spotify_song_search" ).autocomplete({ source: "http://ws.spotify.com/search/1/track.json", data: { q: request.term }, dataType: "getjson", minLength: 3, select: function( event, ui ) { alert('select'); } }); }); </script> Yes, it's possible by making your own AJAX request. Assume you have the following setup: $("#myfield").autocomplete({ source:

I am using Jquery UI's autocomplete widget and I am fetching the items to display through a callback as described in the reference. I have a use-case where I need to present some of the items that I retrieve from the server slightly differently than others, so that the user understands there is a difference between these items. In my case, some of the items are 'personal', and some are 'global'. I would like to let the 'personal' items stand out by adding a CSS class to them so that they have a slightly different background. Is this possible? I have seen in the reference documentation that an

When using the jquery ui autocomplete combobox , can you set a default value for the combobox? I tried answer this in the way that I would do it in my own project. I read through the demo source code from the page you posted. In the jquery code that generates the autocomplete combobox, I added one line of code that processes when the combobox is created that reads the selected value from your "select" element. This way you can programmatically set the default value (like you would normally if you were not using the autocomplete combobox) Here is the one line I added: input.val( $("#combobox