jquery autocomplete get selected item text

Question

I am wondering how to grab the selected item\'s text value on jquery autocomplete.

I have initialised jquery as following :

$(document).ready(function ()         


        

Answer 1

You don't need to apply an anonymous function as a wrap, you can directly pass the function ref.

$(document).ready(function (){
   $("input#autocomplete").autocomplete({
        source: postcodelist,
        select: AutoCompleteSelectHandler
    });
});

Within that method, you can either access this or event.target to get the current value, both values are referencing the input element:

function AutoCompleteSelectHandler(event, ui) {
    alert( $(event.target).val() );
    alert( $(this).val() );

    // alert( this.value );
}