how to keep autocomplete panel open when click outside the panel without select option?

[fengmao]

Bug, feature request, or proposal:

this is a feature request

What is the expected behavior?

i want to keep autocomplete panel open when click outside the panel without select an option

What is the current behavior?

the panel is closed when click outside

What are the steps to reproduce?

https://stackblitz.com/angular/ynbmnnrjolq

What is the use-case or motivation for changing an existing behavior?

Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, TypeScript, browsers are affected?

i work with angular 7.x

Is there anything else we should know?

[swseverance]

@fengmao you can use this approach https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-5j9ujv?embed=1&file=app/autocomplete-overview-example.ts

[dinlal1990]

@fengmao : were you bale to find a solution for this ?

[niralishah1599]

This is work for me Thanks @swseverance

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[muneebkq]

can we make autocomplete render inside cdkoverlay so that when selecting an option of autocomplete it doesn't run (overlayOutsideClick) output property of OVERLAY.

[liesahead]

It's still relevant in v17 at least. I expected the MatAutocompleteSelectedEvent to hold the source event with possibility to prevent default (closing the panel), but it does not.

[boycany]

I also would like to know how to keep autocomplete panel open after selected the option... I tried so many ways, it seems didn't work in autocomplete.

[uaman89]

a workaround i came up with:

@for(option of options){
<mat-option>
  <div class="wrapper" (click)="$event.stopPropagation(); yourOptionSelectHandler(option)">
     ....
  </div>
</mat-option
}