diff --git a/demo.html b/demo.html
index 55e289bc..4c26e357 100644
--- a/demo.html
+++ b/demo.html
@@ -746,5 +746,32 @@ <h2>Exclude Current Tokens From Autocomplete</h2>
         </script>
     </div>
 
+
+    <h2>Do not show hint on focus</h2>
+    <div>
+        <input type="text" id="demo-hide-hint" name="lala" />
+        <input type="button" value="Submit" />
+        <script type="text/javascript">
+            $(document).ready(function() {
+                $("#demo-hide-hint").tokenInput([
+                    {id: 7, name: "Ruby"},
+                    {id: 11, name: "Python"},
+                    {id: 13, name: "JavaScript"},
+                    {id: 17, name: "ActionScript"},
+                    {id: 19, name: "Scheme"},
+                    {id: 23, name: "Lisp"},
+                    {id: 29, name: "C#"},
+                    {id: 31, name: "Fortran"},
+                    {id: 37, name: "Visual Basic"},
+                    {id: 41, name: "C"},
+                    {id: 43, name: "C++"},
+                    {id: 47, name: "Java"}
+                ], {
+                    displayHint: false
+                });
+            });
+        </script>
+    </div>
+
 </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/src/jquery.tokeninput.js b/src/jquery.tokeninput.js
index 4b69d823..0193ef15 100755
--- a/src/jquery.tokeninput.js
+++ b/src/jquery.tokeninput.js
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
     theme: null,
     zindex: 999,
     resultsLimit: null,
+    displayHint: true,
 
     enableHTML: false,
 
@@ -258,7 +259,9 @@
                   return false;
               } else
               if ($(input).data("settings").tokenLimit === null || $(input).data("settings").tokenLimit !== token_count) {
-                  show_dropdown_hint();
+                  if (settings.displayHint) {
+                      show_dropdown_hint();
+                  }
               }
               token_list.addClass($(input).data("settings").classes.focused);
           })