jquerymobile conflict with autocomplete : $this.attr(“href”) is undefined

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4437419

Question

When I use jquery ui autocomplete version 1.8.5 with jquery mobile alpha 2. I get an error when I click an item from the autocomplete list:

$this.attr("href") is undefined.

Does anyone know any fix for it?

EDITED:

<html>
    <head>
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/ui-lightness/jquery-ui-1.8.custom.css">
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/autocomplete.css">
    </head>
    <body>

        <div id="formWrap">
            <form id="messageForm" action="#">
                <fieldset>
                    <label id="toLabel">select:</label>
                    <div id="friends" class="ui-helper-clearfix">

                        <input id="to" type="text">
                    </div>

                </fieldset>
            </form>
        </div>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.mobile-1.0a2.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-ui-1.8.custom.min.js"></script>


        <script type="text/javascript">
            $(function(){

                var availableTags = [
                        "ActionScript",
                        "AppleScript",
                        "Asp",
                        "BASIC",
                        "C",
                        "C++",
                        "Clojure",
                        "COBOL",
                        "ColdFusion",
                        "Erlang",
                        "Fortran",
                        "Groovy",
                        "Haskell",
                        "Java",
                        "JavaScript",
                        "Lisp",
                        "Perl",
                        "PHP",
                        "Python",
                        "Ruby",
                        "Scala",
                        "Scheme"
                    ];


                //attach autocomplete
                $("#to").autocomplete({             

                    source:availableTags
                    ,

                    //define select handler
                    select: function(e, ui) {
                        var contact = ui.item.value;
                        createSpan(contact);
                        $("#to").val("").css("top", 2);
                        return false;
                    }           
                });

                });

            function createSpan(contact){
                //create formatted friend               
                span = $("<span>").text(contact)            
                //add contact to contact div
                span.insertBefore("#to");
            }
        </script>

    </body>
</html>
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Solution

Modified jquery.mobile-1.0a2.js: Added a check to see if href is undefined inside the code 

  $( "a" ).live( "click", function(event) { 
           //( START: My added code) 
            if($(this).attr( "href" )==undefined){
                //for links created for interaction - ignore
                return false;
            }
           //( END: My added code) 
   //Remaining code follows

This fixed the issue.

OTHER TIPS

Hey sweets, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

I find it's better to override the jquery ui code rather than modify the jquery mobile source code directly (for the sake of maintainability). The following overrides the jquery-ui method that renders each item in the autocomplete list; it adds an href attribute with value of '#' to the anchor element being created. This should prevent the undefined href error:

$('#to').data( "autocomplete" )._renderItem = function( ul, item ) {
return $( "<li></li>" )
    .data( "item.autocomplete", item )
    .append( $( "<a></a>" ).attr({href: '#'}).html( item.label ) )
    .appendTo( ul );

}

$(this) not $this.

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