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    copied!<p>I have a jQuery UI Autocomplete control that fires an Ajax request when minLength = 3. The problem is as follows: Say I enter "fic" as the initial search term - this is fine. The request fires and results are returned. I decide that I don't want to select any of the results and then re-enter the same search again (fic). This time no Ajax request fires!</p> <p>My code is shown below:</p> <pre><code>// ... do request $("#reportSearch").autocomplete({ delay: 50, minLength: 3, source: function(q, add){ $.ajaxSetup ({ cache: false}); $.ajax({ type: "GET", url: K_URL_REQUEST </code></pre> <p><br/> So basically the "source" callback is not fired in the second scenario I described above. It appeared that the reason for this was that the autocomplete control was holding onto the previous search term and because it matched - was not triggering a search: <br/><br/></p> <pre><code>// Taken from jquery-ui-1.8.4.custom.min.js if (a.term != a.element.val()) { // *** THE MATCH IS HERE //console.log("a.term != a.element.val(): "+a.term+", "+a.element.val()); a.selectedItem = null; a.search(null, c) // *** SEARCH IS TRIGGERED HERE } </code></pre> <p><br/></p> <p>In order to get it to fire each time, I simply reset the search term to null after a search returned. This way it worked as expected.</p> <p>The thing is I don't understand this behaviour. I would've thought each search should be distinct. There is no caching (or shouldn't be anyway).</p> <p>So although I've fixed my problem I keep feeling that I have missed something here.</p> <p>Any ideas anyone? Thanks in advance!</p>
 

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