Google Places Autocomplete Force Selection

Question

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 1

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!

Answer 2

 <script src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false&amp;libraries=places"     type="text/javascript"></script> <script>     var IsplaceChange = false;     $(document).ready(function () {                     var input = document.getElementById('txtlocation');         var autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(input, { types: ['(cities)'] });          google.maps.event.addListener(autocomplete, 'place_changed', function () {             var place = autocomplete.getPlace();              IsplaceChange = true;         });          $("#txtlocation").keydown(function () {             IsplaceChange = false;         });          $("#btnsubmit").click(function () {              if (IsplaceChange == false) {                 $("#txtlocation").val('');                 alert("please Enter valid location");             }             else {                 alert($("#txtlocation").val());             }          });     }); </script>