Autocomplete Editor: Hightlight the first ListItem (FullList/FilteredList)

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When using the Autocomplete Editor I find it a bit disturbing to use the arrow keys or the mouse to select an item from the list. I think it would be better, if the first item in the list is pre-selected and can be accpeted by pressing enter

Describe the solution you’d like In the fillList-function (link) replace the line setCurrentItem(false); with setCurrentItem(displayItems[0]);

Describe alternatives you’ve considered In my Code, i also implemented an editorParams-switch, so you can change the autocomplete highligt behavior via the column definitions

if (!current) { if(editorParams.highlightFirst){ setCurrentItem(displayItems[0]); } else { setCurrentItem(false) } }

[tentus]

This would be inconsistent with default browser behavior, jqueryui, Materialize, easyautocomplete, etc etc, so I’d definitely recommend such a feature be an opt-in configuration as mentioned.

[leif-freshx]

Hi,

The solution with defaultValue does not really work for dynamically created list of values.

I have a free text search function using the autocomplete editor so I do not know what value will be the “default”/“correct” value when setting up the column so I agree with the original post that it would be very useful to be able to set autoSelectFirstItem=true or something similar as an opt-in feature.

Alternatively, being able to set the defaultValue during the searchFunc executing would also be a working solution.

Best regards, Leif

Hi again,

I saw that another issue mentioned similar request and there it was mentioned that it will be addressed: https://github.com/olifolkerd/tabulator/issues/2906

So, please disregard my comment in this thread.

Best regards and thanks for a great library,

Leif