remove spinner from jquery ui autocomplete if nothing found

Question

I want to remove the spinner (picture which shows that it is loading) from the textfield which supports jquery ui autocomplete. As there is no event for \"no results returne

Answer 1

As of jQuery UI v1.9 you can do something like the following:

$( "#q" ).autocomplete({
  source: "${createLink(mapping:'qsearch')}",
  select: function( event, ui ) {
    foo( ui.item.id );
  },
  search: function( event, ui ) {
    $( "#spinner" ).show();
  },
  response: function( event, ui ) {
    $( "#spinner" ).hide();
  }
});