typeahead list - don't auto select / highlight first item

[thnk2wn]

Need a way to be able to not auto "select" / highlight the first match in the typeahead list. There are workarounds for direct use of bootstrap such as below. We can make custom changes in our copy of angular ui bootstrap typeahead but then we can't easily upgrade later.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9564977/bootstrap-typeahead-dont-autoselect-first-item

http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/overriding-bootstrap-typeahead-to-not-initially-select/

[pkozlowski-opensource]

@thnk2wn I see your use. How would you imagine API for hooking into the typeahead? Feel free to send a PR with the suggested code.

[thnk2wn]

Maybe a true/false attribute something like typeahead-auto-highlight="false". Substituting highlight for select or focus if more clear. Defaults to true.

It may be a bit before I can return to this issue but I can attempt changes, pull request later perhaps. Thanks

[chrisirhc]

I'll take note of this as I work on #888. Gathering more use cases of hooking into controller and what behavior people could possibly want to customize.

[dotlouis]

That would be great if we could have a way to choose which result to highlight on popup. That goes with the option of "none" as @thnk2wn mentioned. That way the user can choose whether or not he wants to use the typeahead list to validate his input field.

1. the user input something in the field
2. the typeahead list pops up with nothing highlighted
3. if the user press enter now it would submit the data in the input field and not the first result of the typeahead list.
   3 bis) if the user goes down, the first element gets highlighted, if then the user goes back up, nothing gets highlighted again and the model is what is in the input.

For now if you have any quick&dirty fix I would gladly take them.
Thanks
Sorry for my english, besides, this is my first comment on github.

[emosenkis]

+1. I also want to allow the user to press enter to take them to a full search page.

[troch]

@Virtual-Dev @emosenkis have a look at issue #1298

[christianacca]

+1 for the behaviour that virtual-dev describes. This is in fact the same default behaviour of the jquery-ui autocomplete widget: http://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/

[alonisser]

👍 for not selecting first item.. or making it optional (and defaults for true)

[dk8996]

👍 this feature is much needed.

[nitinhayaran]

+1

[msafi]

Is the OP asking for a feature or for a bug to be fixed? To me, the current behavior of typeahead is buggy. If the data array of typeahead contains item "Photography" then you can no longer add item "Photo" to the input box because as soon as you start typing "photo", "Photography" item will be selected. Now, when you press enter, it'll submit "Photography". You can get around that if you have an actual submit button on the input field, which you can press with your mouse to get around this bug.

[alonisser]

It's a current feature, which this (#908) issue is in favor of limiting, or
having the ability to turn it off, etc. It's buggy in many ways..