diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/filtered_search/dropdown_utils.js.es6 b/app/assets/javascripts/filtered_search/dropdown_utils.js.es6
index d246000ff52a4473e94d33b3fcb6d3c490e5e471..0c0d24d4de87847c21da6bcdf9bf4c6e38a50818 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/filtered_search/dropdown_utils.js.es6
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/filtered_search/dropdown_utils.js.es6
@@ -42,12 +42,17 @@
 
     static filterHint(item, query) {
       const updatedItem = item;
-      const { lastToken } = gl.FilteredSearchTokenizer.processTokens(query);
+      let { lastToken } = gl.FilteredSearchTokenizer.processTokens(query);
+      lastToken = lastToken || '';
 
-      if (!lastToken) {
+      if (!lastToken || query.split('').last() === ' ') {
         updatedItem.droplab_hidden = false;
-      } else {
-        updatedItem.droplab_hidden = updatedItem.hint.indexOf(lastToken.toLowerCase()) === -1;
+      } else if (lastToken) {
+        const split = lastToken.split(':');
+        const tokenName = split[0].split(' ').last();
+
+        const match = updatedItem.hint.indexOf(tokenName.toLowerCase()) === -1;
+        updatedItem.droplab_hidden = tokenName ? match : false;
       }
 
       return updatedItem;
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/filtered_search/filtered_search_dropdown_manager.js.es6 b/app/assets/javascripts/filtered_search/filtered_search_dropdown_manager.js.es6
index b67176267fbb823c14fabb9a6a85e6048b8db255..e9f1fbf63eda4ee6cee02ccd30a8daad4c5ea2c3 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/filtered_search/filtered_search_dropdown_manager.js.es6
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/filtered_search/filtered_search_dropdown_manager.js.es6
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
       const value = input.value;
       const hasExistingValue = value.length !== 0;
       const { lastToken, searchToken } = gl.FilteredSearchTokenizer.processTokens(value);
+      const lastSearchToken = searchToken.split(' ').last();
 
       // Find out what part of the token value the user has typed
       // and remove it from input before appending the selected token value
@@ -74,8 +75,8 @@
         // Add 2 length to account for the length of the front and back quotes
         const lengthToRemove = hasQuotes ? lastTokenString.length + 2 : lastTokenString.length;
         input.value = value.slice(0, -1 * (lengthToRemove));
-      } else if (searchToken !== '' && word.indexOf(searchToken) !== -1) {
-        input.value = value.slice(0, -1 * searchToken.length);
+      } else if (searchToken !== '' && word.indexOf(lastSearchToken) !== -1) {
+        input.value = value.slice(0, -1 * lastSearchToken.length);
       }
 
       input.value += hasExistingValue && addSpace ? ` ${word}` : word;
@@ -150,11 +151,17 @@
       const { lastToken, searchToken } = this.tokenizer
         .processTokens(this.filteredSearchInput.value);
 
-      if (lastToken === searchToken) {
+      if (this.filteredSearchInput.value.split('').last() === ' ') {
+        this.updateCurrentDropdownOffset();
+      }
+
+      if (lastToken === searchToken && lastToken !== null) {
         // Token is not fully initialized yet because it has no value
         // Eg. token = 'label:'
+
         const split = lastToken.split(':');
-        this.loadDropdown(split.length > 1 ? split[0] : '');
+        const dropdownName = split[0].split(' ').last();
+        this.loadDropdown(split.length > 1 ? dropdownName : '');
       } else if (lastToken) {
         // Token has been initialized into an object because it has a value
         this.loadDropdown(lastToken.key);
diff --git a/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/dropdown_assignee_spec.rb b/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/dropdown_assignee_spec.rb
index 5d0e95580c96ce9627c470fafd58e564c39d413a..a5a05a622b6e4658cb5ebf02d2baa58854daaff4 100644
--- a/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/dropdown_assignee_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/dropdown_assignee_spec.rb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ describe 'Dropdown assignee', js: true, feature: true do
   def send_keys_to_filtered_search(input)
     input.split("").each do |i|
       filtered_search.send_keys(i)
-      sleep 3
+      sleep 5
       wait_for_ajax
     end
   end
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ describe 'Dropdown assignee', js: true, feature: true do
 
   describe 'filtering' do
     before do
-      filtered_search.set('assignee:')
+      send_keys_to_filtered_search('assignee:')
     end
 
     it 'filters by name' do
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ describe 'Dropdown assignee', js: true, feature: true do
     end
 
     it 'selects `no assignee`' do
-      click_assignee('No Assignee')
+      find('#js-dropdown-assignee .filter-dropdown-item', text: 'No Assignee').click
       expect(page).to have_css(js_dropdown_assignee, visible: false)
       expect(filtered_search.value).to eq("assignee:none")
     end
diff --git a/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/dropdown_author_spec.rb b/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/dropdown_author_spec.rb
index c7cb5e25174b3ee62ebe84f7066cdfc94152609d..956f7156c5fefc2e94e4efd9d86ce7e9614a7eb3 100644
--- a/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/dropdown_author_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/dropdown_author_spec.rb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ describe 'Dropdown author', js: true, feature: true do
   def send_keys_to_filtered_search(input)
     input.split("").each do |i|
       filtered_search.send_keys(i)
-      sleep 3
+      sleep 5
       wait_for_ajax
     end
   end
@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ describe 'Dropdown author', js: true, feature: true do
 
   describe 'filtering' do
     before do
-      filtered_search.set('author:')
+      filtered_search.set('author')
+      send_keys_to_filtered_search(':')
     end
 
     it 'filters by name' do
@@ -101,7 +102,8 @@ describe 'Dropdown author', js: true, feature: true do
 
   describe 'selecting from dropdown' do
     before do
-      filtered_search.set('author:')
+      filtered_search.set('author')
+      send_keys_to_filtered_search(':')
     end
 
     it 'fills in the author username when the author has not been filtered' do
diff --git a/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/dropdown_label_spec.rb b/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/dropdown_label_spec.rb
index d007e160b3e9359652300224d365bdbe36b0ca8c..a0e2973d6b8a42d9a74a82fa85b71153cdf63d9a 100644
--- a/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/dropdown_label_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/dropdown_label_spec.rb
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ describe 'Dropdown label', js: true, feature: true do
     end
 
     it 'selects `no label`' do
-      click_label('No Label')
+      find('#js-dropdown-label .filter-dropdown-item', text: 'No Label').click
       expect(page).to have_css(js_dropdown_label, visible: false)
       expect(filtered_search.value).to eq("label:none")
     end
diff --git a/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/filter_issues_spec.rb b/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/filter_issues_spec.rb
index e72417aea807076fd37e5ea6a2a612a561884353..ed6d4a0787a04f64eff8958a8d48ea4f1b1ed205 100644
--- a/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/filter_issues_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/filter_issues_spec.rb
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ describe 'Filter issues', js: true, feature: true do
   let!(:multiple_words_label) { create(:label, project: project, title: "Two words") }
 
   let!(:closed_issue) { create(:issue, title: 'bug that is closed', project: project, state: :closed) }
+  let(:filtered_search) { find('.filtered-search') }
 
   def input_filtered_search(search_term)
-    filtered_search = find('.filtered-search')
     filtered_search.set(search_term)
     filtered_search.send_keys(:enter)
   end