I use the autocomplete/combobox solution as explained here: http://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/#combobox

Finally applied via a $('element').combobox() as in the example code.

 

I use several comboboxes and I want to "empty" the value of, say, "combobox 3" if, say, "combobox 1" gets changed.

The problem is that I cannot find out the id of that element. The cause of this is that combobox is actually "converted" to an INPUT element that shows the current selection of the comboxbox/select and it doesn't have any attributes for identification.

 

For instance a typical INPUT shows like

So, I can get this.tagName, but nothing that identifies the INPUT or even the SELECT that's tied to it.

I also tried to get info via $(this) and ui.item, but I'm not able to get an id or name.

 

Can I get this with some method/property of the autocomplete widget/combobox method?

 

Or should I, for instance, change the code and push some identifier in the title or class or a custom attribute? Probably in _create? Or something else?

 

Thanks!

 

Addition.

In a completely different approch I tried now something like

where #tdOrt is the id of the td that surrounds the combobox area. That works for hover. But if I try to apply it to a form event it doesn't fire, e.g.