The call itself makes sense - when selecting text within the field,
the field should have focus. But the call to $.Autocomplete.Selection
in that case is a bug, as there is nothing to select.
Jörn
2009/7/6 Lauri Suoperä <lauri.suop...@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering that what is the purpose of the field.focus() line
> inside the Autocompleter.Selection function in the autocomplete
> plugin.
> $.Autocompleter.Selection = function(field, start, end) {
> /*...*/
> field.focus();
> };
>
> Because with that line the autocomplete has some very bizarre (imo)
> idea of locking the focus to the field that fired the autocomplete
> even if the user has decided not to select any of the items and has
> instead clicked on another field.
>
> You can see this in: http://jquery.bassistance.de/autocomplete/demo/
> if you click on a field, start typing and then proceed to click on
> another field instead of choosing anything from the autosuggestions.
>
> So I'm wondering if there's a reason for that code and if so, what is
> it? And more importantly, is it relevant if I *only* develop for FF.
>
