Google Places Autocomplete Force Selection
I am using the JavaScript Google places autocomplete API v3. It works fine but I was wondering if there was a way to force the selection from the autocomplete, that is input that will not accept any free form text. I looked at the docs and didn't see such an option but figured I would ask just to be safe. I'm sure I could work out a way to do it with some JavaScript but would prefer to use an already built method if it is available. Thanks!
Answer
Actually, what we did was the following:
- Every time a location is picked from the Auto complete list, we populate some hidden fields with some fields coming from the JSON response (city name, country name, longitude and latitude)
- When the form is submitted, we check if these fields have values, if they don't, it means that the user instead of selecting a location from the list, he just entered a value himself.
It is not solving the problem in a JS way, but still, it does the trick just fine!