Progress Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC

Overview

The Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC AutoComplete component provides suggestions based on the text typed by the user. Familiar and intuitive, Telerik AutoComplete offers single and multiple selection, filtering and grouping, text and token visualization and an optimized performance.

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Data Binding
The component supports various options for data binding:
- AJAX binding - for remote data binding
- Server binding - for local data binding
- Custom binding - for custom DataSource binding
- Model binding - can be implemented for both local and remote data binding
Grouping

The built-in grouping functionality separates different items into the categories they belong. For example, it shows cities under the country they are located in, which allows users to quickly navigate to a needed item.

Explore the ASP.NET MVC AutoComplete Grouping feature
Server and Client Filtering

Leverage the various modes of filtering, both on the server and client-side of your MVC application. These filter modes can include starts with or contains, and can customize how and when the results are displayed.

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AutoComplete Virtualization

The ASP.NET MVC AutoComplete supports virtualization for those of you dealing with large sets of data. For faster performance, it initially renders a fixed number of items and when scrolled loads the rest of them and displays them in the same format.
Templates

The Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC AutoComplete component provides full control over the way items, headers and footers look. This is possible thanks to the three types of templates – Item Template, Header Template and Footer Template.

Check out the documentation on Customizing Templates
RTL Support

The AutoComplete component, like many others from the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC suite, supports RTL configuration. The RTL functionality is supported by most of our components to respond to users who communicate through a right-to-left language such as Arabic or Hebrew.

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Keyboard Navigation

The AutoComplete is one of the many components in the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC suite with keyboard navigation support. You can use the arrows to navigate between the items in the list, you can press enter to select the highlighted item or use page up/page down to scroll further through the list.

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Theming

To make the AutoComplete component fit to your client’s design requirements you can style it by choosing from 20+ built-in themes and swatches the component comes with. Some of them include Material (based on the Material Design guidelines) and Bootstrap (which resembles the Bootstrap styling to integrate better). If you like you can further customize the available themes with a few lines of CSS or by using the Progress SASS ThemeBuilder.