scriptaculous autocompleter

[tbox]

I posted this query in the javascript forum but someone suggested I might find more help here.
I've built an autocomplete text field using scriptaculous/prototype and have added an afterUpdateElement option to it so that the form submits when a user selects an option from the autocomplete list. This worked fine until I added a standard submit button to the form as well. Now, the submit button works, but the afterUpdateElement doesn't.
Any ideas?
ps. if this is more a javascript problem then I apologise!

[toytron]

How about:
$(’myselect’).observe(’change’,function(){…});

[TomK32]

Hi,

Some actual code might help but usually it's something with a missing "return" or "event.preventDefault()"

[tbox]

Here's the javascript code:

function buildAutocompleter()
{
new Ajax.Autocompleter(
'ds',
'autoCompleteMenu',
'#', //this points to the php include that generates the list
{
minChars: 2,
frequency: 0.5,
afterUpdateElement: function() { document.destSearch.submit(); }
}
);
}
Event.observe(window, "load", buildAutocompleter);

This is the html:

<form action="" method="get" id="destSearch" name="destSearch" onsubmit="return checkForm(this);">
<div id="searchbar">
<div id="searchinput">

<input type="text" name="ds" value="click and type destination" id="ds" align="middle" autocomplete="off" onfocus="clearMe(this)" onblur="returnMe(this)" />
<div id="autoCompleteMenu" name="autoCompleteMenu" class="auto_complete"></div>


</div><!-- end of searchinput -->
<input type="submit" name="go" id="submit" value="search" />
</div>
</form>

toytron, I'm not sure what you mean by your post. Could you explain it further for me?