AutoCompleteTextBox

AutoCompleteTextBox provides live dropdown hints to users as they type in keywords in a textbox. The control utilizes callbacks to send the keyed data to the server and get back hints that are to be displayed in a dropdown. A highly customizable look and feel can be customized for the drop down items.

Salient Features

• External Datasource

Any relational DataSource can be specified as the dictionary from which the dropdown hints will be provided. Optionally, custom hints can also be provided for the dropdown.

• Customize look and feel

The look and feel of AutoComplete dropdown can be customized using css definitions or templates.

• Multi-column dropdown

The dropdown data can be viewed in multiple columns while using the AutoCompleteTextBox. This allows us to have detailed view of information that we are going to select.

• Multi-select items

AutoCompleteTextBox lets multiple items to be selected from the list using a delimiter character for separating the items. This can be used like the autocomplete feature in Outlook textbox, which allows the user to add any number of mail id's.

• Limit dropdown items

The count of the items to be displayed in the drop down list can be limited programatically.