jquery - How to prevent Twitter typeahead from filling in the input with the selected value?

Question

I'm using Twitter's typeahead plugin for autocompletion with a text input. I want to change the behavior so that instead of putting the selected option's value into the text input (when clicked), it does something else with it.

Is there any way to prevent typeahead from automatically filling in the input with the selected option's value?

Answer 1

Struggled with this for a while, before I found how to clear the text when you select an option:

$("#typeahead-input").on('typeahead:selected', function (event, datum, name) {
   $(this).typeahead("val", "");
   // Do something with the datum...
});