From 23f0b7cb9d65004263aa3c065dc9fa8b6931ade5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Daiana=20Cambruzzi=20=C3=81vila?=
 <daiana.avila@betha.com.br>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 08:36:33 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Fix Issue 630: allow triggering of 'search' event when
 clearing the input field

---
 src/scripts/choices.ts | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/scripts/choices.ts b/src/scripts/choices.ts
index 62e8f83..a25add9 100644
--- a/src/scripts/choices.ts
+++ b/src/scripts/choices.ts
@@ -1230,7 +1230,7 @@ class Choices implements Choices {
   }
 
   _handleSearch(value: string): void {
-    if (!value || !this.input.isFocussed) {
+    if (!this.input.isFocussed) {
       return;
     }
 
@@ -1239,7 +1239,11 @@ class Choices implements Choices {
     const hasUnactiveChoices = choices.some((option) => !option.active);
 
     // Check that we have a value to search and the input was an alphanumeric character
-    if (value && value.length >= searchFloor) {
+    if (
+      value !== null &&
+      typeof value !== 'undefined' &&
+      value.length >= searchFloor
+    ) {
       const resultCount = searchChoices ? this._searchChoices(value) : 0;
       // Trigger search event
       this.passedElement.triggerEvent(EVENTS.search, {