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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

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    post the code you have so far Commented May 18, 2011 at 11:44

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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

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Hey Abdul,Many thanks for the help. I added .text to the end of that and it worked like a charm. Thanks a million for the help and apologies for the late response.

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