Google Places API autocomplete not working - google-maps-api-3

Question

Right now, the autocomplete box works just fine when I click on the location, but when I press down, highlight the location that I want to go to, and press enter, it simply goes back to the home location of the map. Any insights on this? I call this function in initialize(). I'm lost as to what I possibly did wrong. Is this just a google api bug? If so, any insights as to how to work around it?
function setupAutoComplete() {
var defaultBounds = new google.maps.LatLngBounds(
new google.maps.LatLng(-90, -180),
new google.maps.LatLng(90, 180));
var input = document.getElementById('placeSearch');
var options = {
bounds: defaultBounds,
types: ['(regions)']
};
autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(input, options);
google.maps.event.addListener(autocomplete, 'place_changed', function() {
alert('hi');
removeAllOverlays();
var place = autocomplete.getPlace();
var mapCenter = place.geometry.location;
var colLat = mapCenter.lat() - (halfPoints)*latSeparation;
var colLng = mapCenter.lng() - (halfPoints)*lngSeparation;
var tempStart = new google.maps.LatLng(colLat, colLng);
map.setCenter(mapCenter);
pointArray[0][0] = tempStart;
reService();
mapSearch();
drawBounds();
});
}
Thanks so much!

Answer 1

I guess the input#placeSearch is placed inside a <form>.
You submit the form when you press [ENTER].
You may either remove the surrounding form or cancel the submission by adding:
onsubmit="return false"
...to the form-element.

Answer 2

I just hit this issue and went with the following, as I do want to submit the form at a later stage. This code is from google groups.
var input = document.getElementById('create-location');
var options = {
//types: ['(cities)'],
};
autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(input, options);
google.maps.event.addDomListener(input, 'keydown', function(e) {
if (e.keyCode == 13)
{
if (e.preventDefault)
{
e.preventDefault();
}
else
{
// Since the google event handler framework does not handle early IE versions, we have to do it by our self. :-(
e.cancelBubble = true;
e.returnValue = false;
}
}
});