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jQuery autocomplete UI- I'd like it to start the search onfocus without the user having to type anything

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jQuery autocomplete UI- I'd like it to start the search onfocus without the user having to type anything.

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Basically, I'm trying to force the jquery autocomplete UI to execute on focus and not require the user to press any key or enter any value.

thanks

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What version of jQueryUI are you using? According to the documentation for autocomplete, the way you referenced should work:

("search" method documentation)

...If no value argument is specified, the current input's value is used. Can be called with an empty string and minLength: 0 to display all items.

I've posted an example here that works for me in FF/Chrome: http://jsfiddle.net/andrewwhitaker/B38Hj/. Let me know if you see any weird behavior.

$("input").focus(function() {
    $(this).autocomplete("search");
});

The example uses jQuery UI 1.8.5 and jQuery 1.4.4.

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  • Thanks it worked. I had tried 
     $("#input").focus(function() {
    if ($(this).val().length == 0) {
        $(this).autocomplete("search");
    }
});    But thatdidn't work well. So THANKS AGAIN!!!
     – David Dec 21 '10 at 15:12