I have successfuly implemented Google Maps Places V3 autocomplete feature on my input box as per http://web.archive.org/web/20120225114154/http://code.google.com:80/intl/sk-SK/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/places.html. It works nicely, however I would love to know how can I make it select the first option from the suggestions when a user presses enter. I guess I would need some JS magic, but I am very much new to JS and don’t know where to start.
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Answer
I had the same issue when implementing autocomplete on a site I worked on recently. This is the solution I came up with:
$("input").focusin(function () {
$(document).keypress(function (e) {
if (e.which == 13) {
var firstResult = $(".pac-container .pac-item:first").text();
var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
geocoder.geocode({"address":firstResult }, function(results, status) {
if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
var lat = results[0].geometry.location.lat(),
lng = results[0].geometry.location.lng(),
placeName = results[0].address_components[0].long_name,
latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(lat, lng);
$(".pac-container .pac-item:first").addClass("pac-selected");
$(".pac-container").css("display","none");
$("#searchTextField").val(firstResult);
$(".pac-container").css("visibility","hidden");
moveMarker(placeName, latlng);
}
});
} else {
$(".pac-container").css("visibility","visible");
}
});
});