How to select an option in the Autocomplete component?

[softelos]

It doesn't seem to be a way to make the Autocomplete component to select one of the existing options by index. How can I do this?

[morettic2015]

Also facing same problem. Need to set a selected option after component is initiated but dont know how to achieve this.

Tried:

`

let acl = document.getElementById("task_lead");

let leads = M.Autocomplete.getInstance(acl);

leads.activeIndex = 1;

leads.dropdown.$el[0].M_Dropdown.$el[0].value = 1;

` But it does not works. How to set a selected value similar to a select / options html?

[samijnih]

:+1: