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javascriptjquerycsssearchautofill
anbhd
anbhd

Reputation: 125

Hide autofill dropdown on click outside of form field

I made an autofill search where when you type into the form field, it'll populate a dropdown of results that are from an array.

The issue I'm having is that when you click outside of the dropdown, it disappears as it should, but when you start typing into the form field again, the dropdown won't show. I'm trying to use jQuery to achieve this:

This is to display the dropdown under the search field:

const input = document.querySelector('#FAVORITE_LOCATION');
const suggestions = document.querySelector('.suggestions ul');
const country = ['USA', 'Canada'];

function search(str) {
    let results = [];
    const val = str.toLowerCase();

    for (i = 0; i < country.length; i++) {
        if (country[i].toLowerCase().indexOf(val) > -1) {
            results.push(country[i]);
        }
    }

    return results;
}

function searchHandler(e) {
    const inputVal = e.currentTarget.value;
    let results = [];
    if (inputVal.length > 0) {
        results = search(inputVal);
    }
    showSuggestions(results);
}

function showSuggestions(results) {

    suggestions.innerHTML = '';

    if (results.length > 0) {
        for (i = 0; i < results.length; i++) {
            suggestions.innerHTML += `<li>${results[i]}</li>`;
        }
        suggestions.classList.add('has-suggestions');
    } else {
        results = [];
        suggestions.innerHTML = '';
        suggestions.classList.remove('has-suggestions');
    }
}

function useSuggestion(e) {
    input.value = e.target.innerText;
    input.focus();
    suggestions.innerHTML = '';
    suggestions.classList.remove('has-suggestions');
}

input.addEventListener('keyup', searchHandler);
suggestions.addEventListener('click', useSuggestion);

Below is where I'm trying to hide the autofill that gets populated:

$(document).on('click', function(event){
    var container = $("ul.has-suggestions");
    if (!container.is(event.target) &&            
        container.has(event.target).length === 0) 
    {
       container.hide();
    }else{
        container.show();
    }
});

Lastly, here's the CSS for the dropdown itself

.search-container {
  position: relative;
}

.search-container input,
.search-container .suggestions {
  width: 100%;
}
.search-container input {
  background-color: white;
  height: 60px;
  padding: 0 10px;
}
.search-container .suggestions {
  position: absolute;
  top: 80px;
}

ul {
  display: none;
  list-style-type: none;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  box-shadow: 0 1px 2px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
  max-height: 200px;
  overflow-y: auto;
}
ul.has-suggestions {
  display: block;
}
ul li {
  padding: 10px;
  cursor: pointer;
  background-color: white;
  color: black;
}

ul.has-suggestions is set to display:block when the user starts to type into the form field, which then shows a populated dropdown. I tried to use an if/else statement and using .show(); but it doesn't seem to work.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1420

Answers (1)

J. Timmerman
J. Timmerman

Reputation: 30

You probably want to do something like this to show and/or hide your autocomplete suggestions:

input.addEventListener('blur', function() {
  $("ul.has-suggestions").hide();
})

input.addEventListener('focus', function() {
  $("ul.has-suggestions").show();
})

edit: codepen with example

edit 2 with requested update; codepen with example

This second codepen populates the form field with the clicked value.

Upvotes: 2

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