Google map api v3: SearchBox. Emulating press Enter button

Question

When you enter some text in SearchBox it will show you a drop-down with a few choices but if you instead press Enter button it will return most corresponding answer immediatelly.

How to achieve this behavior programatically?

I tried to emulate press Enter event on this control and calling .getPlaces() method manually but nothing happens.

Is there any solution for this problem?

Answer 1

It seems that the listeners for the searchBox will be bound on focus and removed on blur.

So you must first trigger the focus-event and then the keydown-event of the input associated with the searchBox.

When you trigger the keydown-event, pass as argument an object with the property keyCode:13

//input associated with the searchBox
var input = document.getElementById('pac-input');

google.maps.event.trigger( input, 'focus')
google.maps.event.trigger( input, 'keydown', {keyCode:13})