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Sorry, I'm not getting it completely - can you elaborate a bit?

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Here you can reproduce a bug. Just click mouse on field to give it focus and select any suggestion in dropdown menu. Dropdown menu will disappear and appear again. Because in your code autocomplete field gets a focus after selecting and then browser makes a request again (cache is false).
My suggestion is add the flag which will set the behavior: return a focus to the field or not after selecting.

if (o.returnFocus) that.focus();

Or maybe suggest a better solution.

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Okay, I've just committed an update, but it won't completely fix the issue. Your use case is really a special scenario.

The problem is, "focus" is necessary for using scroll bars in the dropdown suggestions box in Internet Explorer (<= 10). With the updated code, focus is only triggered when actually required to keep the scroll bars working. I believe that's a pretty good compromise, because those IE versions are fortunately fading away slowly.

In the meantime, you could prep your source function in order to prevent double requests or you could patch the plugin code on your own.

If the solution is working for you, I'd close the issue.

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Nay, I see that doesn't really fix the issue for you. I'll try something else ...

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I'm afraid I'm turning in circles here. In the end, the dropdown box should close when the input field looses focus. However, depending on the browser, the field also looses focus (unwanted) when controlling scroll bars by mouse inside the suggestions. That was actually an issue once:
#12

In order to close the suggestions box without using the blur event, it may be possible to catch events such as pressing tab, shift+tab, hotkeys, click outside the box, etc. Yet, my guess is, that this involves quite an amount of extra code ... If you have an idea, let me know please.

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