Submitting form with typeahead inside

[mic4ael]

Together with my teammates today we stumbled upon an error in one of our custom jQuery widgets which uses the typeahead library internally. The problem was caused by calling hideLayout when submitting a form. After some investigations we found the lines which are the main culprit.
Link to the source code

// Means the container is already hidden
// if (!this.container.hasClass('result')) return;

It kind of makes sense to check if layout is already shown and if there is a necessity to hide it, thus my question is if this comment is intended? If it is, then, can we get exaplanation why?

[ThiefMaster]

Did you post markdown with a broken URL or did you stumble on a GitHub bug? Your link points to https://github.com/running-coder/jquery-typeahead/issues/url

[mic4ael]

Sorry for the mistake. The url has been corrected.

[running-coder]

Hey mic4ael,
I've commented this line to implement a backdrop/fullpage search option recently. This ticket and investigation made me realize that show/hide layout is not handled properly. The functions are indeed not fired at the proper time depending on the used configuration.

So you get a better understanding of the backdrop search: http://jsfiddle.net/runningcoder/xd0q4co1/

[running-coder]

I've uncommented the code and fixed the backdrop option so it behaves properly with "Esc" key so hideLayout doesn't always gets through

[mic4ael]

That is great. Thanks for your professionalism and quick response.

[running-coder]

Thanks for raising the issue! let me know if everything works as expected

[mic4ael]

It looks like the fix solves the issue for us.