How to close the autocomplete dropdown of jquery-textcomplete programmatically?

Question

I added a autocompletion to an input field with jquery-textcomplete. In some cases, I want to close it programmatically without losing focus on the text field.

How can you close the dropdown in code?

Answer 1

This is a workaround, as the API currently does not support this feature.

jquery-textcomplete stores its information in the data attribute textComplete. You can close the dropdown by calling it's deactivate function like this:

yourAutocompleteField.data("textComplete").dropdown.deactivate();