Not Selecting The First Item of a Autocomplete Field When Pressing Enter

[davidhshugar]

Hello,

I am using a submission form with an autocomplete field. A problem that users are running into is that when they type in text and press "enter", the first item of the autocomplete menu is submitted instead of whatever text they have typed in. If the mouse is moved over another item of the autocomplete dropdown and "enter" is pressed or the mouse if clicked, that item will be selected - which works well.  But... is possible to not automatically highlight the first item of the autocomplete field so that if "enter" is pressed, the text they have typed in will be submitted, instead of the first item of the autocomplete field?

-David 

[robstark]

In case you can search for partial results, you shouldn't automatically autocomplete the field, as the user might just wanted to search for the substring he entered (in the above case he wanted everything starting with AB). For this you probably have a combobox style widget, where you can enter any string, or choose from a list.