Progress Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC DropDownList Overview

The MVC DropDownList widget offers a simple and lightweight single selection drop-down list of items. It uses advanced CSS rendering with list items, rather than HTML tables, to keep the page output clean and minimal. The semantic rendering improves app responsiveness and makes your web pages more SEO friendly.

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Data Binding

Bind ASP.NET MVC DropDownList to a wide range of data sources, including static arrays, local or remote data, or even Web API endpoints.

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Cascading DropDownList

Relate dropdown lists where one DropDownList cascades into another, by simply setting one property.

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Filtering

You can easily filter the DropDownList to find the item(s) you are looking for. You can adjust the component for client or server filtering with only a few settings.
Server and Client Validation

Utilize the built-in client and server validation of ASP.NET MVC with the Telerik DropDownList component. This ensures you can properly display validation messages if a data processing error has occurred.
Grouping

The Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC DropDownList enables you to bind it to a grouped data source. Grouping the items in the list makes it easier for users to locate their desired ones and contributes to a better UX.

See the ASP.NET MVC DropDownList Grouping demo
Templates

The MVC DropDownList lets you customize its look through templates. You have full control over the way an item, value or a pop-up header is rendered.

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RTL Support

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

With the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC DropDownList, you can use the arrows to navigate the list and choose your desired item.

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Theming

The DropDownList component is one of the many ASP.NET MVC components you can style using one of 20+ built-in themes and swatches. You can easily customize any of out-of-the-box themes with a few lines of CSS, or create new themes to match your colors and branding by using the Progress SASS ThemeBuilder application.
Virtualization

The Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC DropDownList comes with a built-in virtualization feature, which comes in handy when you are dealing with large sets of data. Initially the control loads only a specified data size, and requests the rest when the user scrolls through the list.