Forcing Selection in a dropdown

[Toxic]

Ok, I wnat my users to be able to use the suggest append option, BUT I want them to only pick items that are in the list.

Any ideas on how this is possible?

eg. if the list contained :

apple
pear 
plum
orange
grapefruit

They can start typing "grap" and it autocompletes, but I don;t want them to not pick "grapefruit" from there. ie. leave just "grap" in the text field. Is there an option setting for this. There used to be something called first marked match I think in asp.

Any help appreciated.

Tox

[Toxic]

Additionally, I can see no way of setting the background colour of the items as they are added to the drop down.

Previously I used : 

dropdown.Items(i).Attributes.Add("style", "background-color:" etc.

But there is no attribute function. I have looked at using visualitem but must be referencing this incorrectly as this must be done at loading the list.

I need a list in various colours, is this possible?

Cheers

Tox 

[Stefan]

Hi Tox,

Could you please specify which product are you using - RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WPF, because your question does not seems to be related to the WinForms suite where you have posted your question. Additionally, please specify the control as well.
 
Greetings,
Stefan
the Telerik team