In a nested list, searching for a child item and pressing ENTER selects the parent

[wildhart]

Try it here: https://vue-treeselect.js.org/#basic-features
Search for Apple:

Press Enter, "Fruits" is selected:

I think a better approach would be to automatically highlight the first MATCHING item (apple), instead of just the first item (fruits), so that pressing Enter selects a matching item.

[chriscfoster]

Have you tried :autoSelectDescendants="true" ? although that may introduce a different issue, I wondered if that would fix this

[wildhart]

Hi @chriscfoster, thanks for your interest.

I tried that here, doesn't help: https://codepen.io/wildhart/pen/mdOvMbz

autoSelectDescendants only effects the behaviour when selecting a parent in flat mode. This bug is different: