How do you trigger autocomplete "select" event manually in jQueryUI?

Here's what worked for me:

$(this).data('ui-autocomplete')._trigger('select', 'autocompleteselect', {item:{value:$(this).val()}});

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You could do:

$("#someId").trigger("autocompleteselect");

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You can do it the way the jQuery team does it in their unit tests - see this answer

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