I am using Angular JS - ui.bootstrap.typeahead:
I would like to click a button and focus an input field and automatically show the typeahead suggestion dropdown. I have a directive that automatically focuses the input field when the button is clicked. How can I show the dropdown automatically so the user can use the down arrow, or click, to quickly choose a user?
I have created a Plunker with the ui-bootstrap JS file editable for tinkering:
http://plnkr.co/edit/Z79LY0OYlwFc3wirjxol?p=preview
This is my full script:
<!doctype html>
<html ng-app="plunker">
<head>
<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.2/angular.js"></script>
<script src="ui-bootstrap-tpls-0.10.0.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script>
angular.module('plunker', ['ui.bootstrap'])
.directive('focusMe', function($timeout, $parse) {
return {
//scope: true, // optionally create a child scope
link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
var model = $parse(attrs.focusMe);
scope.$watch(model, function(value) {
if(value === true) {
$timeout(function() {
element[0].focus();
});
}
});
}
};
});
function TypeaheadCtrl($scope, $http) {
$scope.selected = undefined;
$scope.states = ['Alabama', 'Alaska', 'Arizona', 'Arkansas', 'California', 'Colorado', 'Connecticut', 'Delaware', 'Florida', 'Georgia', 'Hawaii', 'Idaho', 'Illinois', 'Indiana', 'Iowa', 'Kansas', 'Kentucky', 'Louisiana', 'Maine', 'Maryland', 'Massachusetts', 'Michigan', 'Minnesota', 'Mississippi', 'Missouri', 'Montana', 'Nebraska', 'Nevada', 'New Hampshire', 'New Jersey', 'New Mexico', 'New York', 'North Dakota', 'North Carolina', 'Ohio', 'Oklahoma', 'Oregon', 'Pennsylvania', 'Rhode Island', 'South Carolina', 'South Dakota', 'Tennessee', 'Texas', 'Utah', 'Vermont', 'Virginia', 'Washington', 'West Virginia', 'Wisconsin', 'Wyoming'];
$scope.opened = false;
$scope.open = function() {
$scope.opened = true;
}
$scope.close = function() {
$scope.opened = false;
}
}
</script>
<div class='container-fluid' ng-controller="TypeaheadCtrl">
<h4>How can I open the typeahead dropdown automatically when button is pressed?</h4>
<p>I have a directive that automatically focuses on the field but I can't seem to automatically show the typeahead. Even adding down arrow key click support would be great.
<br/><br/>
<button class="btn btn-default" ng-show="!opened" ng-click="open()">Open Input and show typeahead!</button>
<button class="btn btn-default" ng-show="opened" ng-click="close()">Close Input</button>
<br/><br/>
<input type="text"
focus-me="opened"
ng-show="opened"
ng-model="selected"
typeahead="state for state in states | filter:$viewValue | limitTo:8"
class="form-control">
<br/>
<pre ng-show="opened">Model: {{selected | json}}</pre>
</div>
</body>
</html>
typeahead-min-length="0" does the trick (I am using v0.4.0)
I wanted the typeahead to open whenever my input element had focus. @yohairosen's solution didn't work for me on the latest version of Angular Bootstrap (Version: 1.0.3). Here's the solution that worked for me. It involved manually invoking the parser attached by ui-bootstrap-typeahead which populates the suggestions:
This might be buggy because it assumes the parser added by ui-bootstrap-typeahead is the only one.
I got solved this issue through a directive. When you uses this directive, shows the list without some filter then, you type your search to find an element.
I leave a view code, to testing the above code.
What we'd want is to trigger('input') on the input element when it's focused.
The correct way to do it in Angular is to do it in a directive.
Use this directive on the typeahead input element -
Updated:
I added the directive to github for easy updates and access. You can now install it as a dependency through bower.
Original post:
I came up with a pretty clean hack that does not require any changes to ui-bootstrap-tpls. The Idea is to use $setViewValue() to trigger the popup with a combination of a special filter comparator function.
In order to bypass the minLength check, $setViewValue() has to be set to a value longer than 1 so i'm using one space string. The role of the comparator function is to treat one space as a match to all items so they'll all show up when clicking on an empty input.
I created a simple directive:
Usage:
you can achieve by this code
change the test to your type-head ID