Programmatically triggering typeahead.js result display

I am using Twitter's typeahead.js (https://github.com/twitter/typeahead.js/) on an input field which is pre filled from a query string. After loading the page, i'd like to programmatically trigger the display of typeahead results without the user needing to type anything in the form field.

Out of the box, typeahead.js is only triggered if the user manually types something into the input field and i can not find any method in typeahead.js which i could call to trigger the display of results.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Triggering input seems to do it.

$(".typeahead").eq(0).val("Uni").trigger("input");

Tested this on the example page.

According to my tests (see fiddle), the focus() method is necessary in order to display the dropdown. So:

theVal = $('.typeahead').val();
$(".typeahead").typeahead('val', '')
$(".typeahead").focus().typeahead('val',theVal).focus();

• On line 1, we're assigning the current value of the Typeahead input to the variable theVal;
• On line 2 we simply reset typeahead's computed value; and
• On line 3 we're putting back the original value and the focus, which results in the suggestion dropdown displaying as if the user had typed something.

I actually needed this to strongly encourage users to select from the Bloodhound suggestions coming from a geocoding API call so I could ensure the coordinates were obtained by the client prior to submitting a form.