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Programmatically triggering typeahead.js result display

I am using Twitter's typeahead.js (https://github.com/twitter/typeahead.js/) on an input field which is pre filled from a query string. After loading the page, i'd like to programmatically trigger the display of typeahead results without the user needing to type anything in the form field.

Out of the box, typeahead.js is only triggered if the user manually types something into the input field and i can not find any method in typeahead.js which i could call to trigger the display of results.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Solution

  • Triggering input seems to do it.

    $(".typeahead").eq(0).val("Uni").trigger("input");

    Tested this on the example page.