Jquery UI Autocomplete

Question

Please let me know how to get the value of the first item in the list without it being selected?

Basically I type in some letters a few options come up but the user does not select or highlight them. I just want to capture the first option in the list and save that in a variable.

I would appreciate any help.

And yes I did have a look on the site first but did not spot the answer.

Many thanks

Answer 1

The jQuery autocomplete generated list has class similar to ui-autocomplete ui-menu ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-corner-all

$('.ui-autocomplete li:first')

will get you the first li