How to programmatically clear the combobox?

[mrbelk]

What is the accepted method for programmatically clearing the selection from the widget? I tried "toggle," "clearElement," and "clearTarget" but all of those caused extra down-carets to be rendered and the behavior after that was wrong.

Thanks.

[mikeblum]

I wrote a custom method to do this:

• clear the value
• update the list
  *don't apply focus

, clear: function(){
            this.$element.val('');
            this.source = this.parse();
            this.options.items = this.source.length;
        }

use it like this:

this.$('select').data('combobox').clear();

To progrmatically update the combobox use this (see issue #75 ):

//fix for getting combobox to accept the value
this.$('select').data('combobox').refresh();