diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/gl_dropdown.js.coffee b/app/assets/javascripts/gl_dropdown.js.coffee
index 703128fecb306214c00d406c7baaef06c9974517..1b0d9f0b1ae6508abea3abdd97efb326d4040627 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/gl_dropdown.js.coffee
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/gl_dropdown.js.coffee
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ class GitLabDropdown
             @fullData = data
 
             @parseData @fullData
+
+            @filter.input.trigger('keyup') if @options.filterable and @filter and @filter.input
         }
 
     # Init filterable