GitHub Issue #62: html-encode input text when calculating width

Author: oakmac

js/autocomplete.js

@@ -1053,7 +1053,7 @@ var markFirstLastOptions = function() {
 var calcTextWidth = function(text) {
  // add the text to the dummy span with some extra characters as a buffer
  // NOTE: "W" seems to be the widest character in most fonts
- inputWidthProxyEl.html(text + 'WW');
+ inputWidthProxyEl.html(encode(text) + 'WW');
 
  // copy text-related css properties from the input element to the proxy
  var cssProps = {};