Hey @JKieserman - it's possible that the Codex component you want to use here is Lookup, rather than TypeaheadSearch.

They're similar components, but TypeaheadSearch is much more opinionated in a few ways:

• It contains a <form> with a submit button
• The menu items presented as autocomplete suggestions are meant to be links to other pages. TypeaheadSearch expects the items provided via the menuItem prop to follow the SearchResult type, which requires a url for the menu item.
• Tracking of the selected item's value is different: with Lookup, you use v-model to bind the value of the selected item, so you're always tracking that value in the parent component. With TypeaheadSearch, clicking on a menu item typically takes you to another page, so the focus is on emitting events on click or on form submit, for the sake of analytics, rather than keeping track of the selected value.

Essentially, Lookup is designed for selection of items to be used in a form or otherwise on the same page, whereas TypeaheadSearch is designed to present links that will take the user off the page.

By the way, we're in the process of changing the way menu items work, and the result will be that you will have many more built-in options for menu items for any component with a menu. So, you'll be able to easily add things like descriptions, thumbnails, and icons to the menu items within a Lookup component.

Happy to chat about this more together so we can figure out what's the best component here! We've also considered moving TypeaheadSearch to a different location on the documentation site to indicate that it's more of an "app" meant for a specific use case, vs. a more flexible and basic component like Lookup.

Change 770528 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jkieserman; author: Jkieserman):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda@master] Replace SDAutocompleteSearchInput with Codex Lookup

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/770528

Blocked on merge and release of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304577

Change 770528 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda@master] Replace SDAutocompleteSearchInput with Codex Lookup

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/770528