Events other than 'place_changed' for Google Maps Autocomplete

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Wesley picture Wesley · Aug 25, 2015 · Viewed 39.9k times · Source

I have an app that currently fires correctly on place_changed.

However, I want to branch search to behave differently when a user has selected an autocomplete entry, and when they have entered text on their own without the assistance of autocomplete.

What kind of event listener should I use to make the distinction? I cannot find any documentation on other events for Google Maps Autocomplete.

what I have now:

var gmaps = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete($("#searchproperties").get(0), 
{ types: ['geocode'], componentRestrictions: {country: 'us'} });

google.maps.event.addListener(gmaps, 'place_changed', function () {
    //FIRE SEARCH
});

Answer

geocodezip picture geocodezip · Aug 25, 2015

There is only one documented event in the Google Maps Javascript API v3 for the google.maps.places.Autocomplete class, place_changed

You can add standard HTML event listeners to it (not sure if that will affect the Autocomplete functionality).

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