When user selects a value in the select list using the mouse, a change event is triggered for the autocomplete input field because of blur. But this change event will yield the typed-in value from the input field. The autocomplete plugin changes the value right after that to the user's selected string. Unfortunately, this does not trigger another change event.

I need to catch change, but I only see the typed-in value. I can ignore this event, but to get the selected value associated with a change event, I modified the plugin to trigger change when the user's selection is stored. (It would be nice to be able to suppress the change event on click of selection choice but I don't know how to do that.)

Here's the patch which starts around line 213:

$input.val(v);

hideResultsNow();

+ $input.trigger("change");

$input.trigger("result", [selected.data, selected.value]);

return true;