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jQuery UI Autocomplete close Event

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jQuery UI consists of GUI widgets, visual effects, and themes implemented using HTML, CSS, and jQuery. jQuery UI is great for building UI interfaces for the webpages. The jQuery UI Autocomplete widget is used to perform autocomplete enables to quickly find and select from a pre-populated list of values as they type, leveraging searching and filtering.

The jQuery UI Autocomplete close event is used to trigger when the menu option is hidden.

Syntax:

Initialize the autocomplete with the close callback specified.

$( ".selector" ).autocomplete({
      close: function( event, ui ) {}
});

Bind an event listener to the autocompleteclose close event.

$( ".selector" ).on(
    "autocompleteclose",
    function( event, ui ) {}
);

Parameters: It accepts a callback function that holds two parameters.

  • event: It accepts event type value.
  • ui: It accepts Object type value. The ui object can be empty but used for consistency with other events.

Approach: First, add jQuery UI scripts needed for your project.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css”>
<script src=”//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js”></script>
<script src=”//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js”></script>

Example: This example describes the uses of jQuery UI Autocomplete close event.

HTML




<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content=
        "width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href=
        "//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css">
    <script src=
       "//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js">
    </script>
    <script src=
       "//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js">
    </script>
  
    <script>
        $(function () {
            var subjects = [
                "HTML",
                "CSS",
                "JavaScript",
                "jQuery",
                "PHP",
                "React",
                "Node.js"
            ];
            $("#inputID").autocomplete({
                source: subjects,
                close: function( event, ui ) {
                    alert("Close Event Triggered");
                }
            });
        });
    </script>
</head>
  
<body>
    <center>
        <div class="ui-widget">
            <h1 style="color:green;">
                GeeksforGeeks
            </h1>
            <h3>jQuery UI Autocomplete close Event</h3>
  
            <label for="inputID">
                Select Subject:
            </label>
            <input id="inputID">
        </div>
    </center>
</body>
</html>


Output:

Reference: https://api.jqueryui.com/autocomplete/#event-close



Last Updated : 23 Dec, 2021
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