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Blazor ComboBox
- Offer your users a choice between a list of pre-set options or let them enter their own with the Blazor ComboBox component.
- This component is part of the largest truly native Blazor component suite - Telerik UI for Blazor designed to perfectly fit in any app’s requirement.
- The Blazor UI suite also comes with professionally designed themes enabled with a flip of a switch, document processing library, rich docs & demos to help you get started in no time.
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Blazor ComboBox Overview
The Blazor Combobox shows a list of options the user can select from. They can easily filter that list to find data faster, or even input their own text. You can customize the appearance of the items and the selection through templates, implement your own custom filtering and load data on demand, react to events, validate the user input and benefit from built-in support for web accessibility standards and keyboard navigation. The ComboBox component works in both WebAssembly (WASM) and Server-side Blazor apps.
Check out the Blazor ComboBox demo
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Blazor ComboBox Events
The Blazor ComboBox component exposes 3 events – OnChange, ValueChanged & OnBlur to let you handle user input any way you need to. They are triggered as their names suggest – when the value is submitted, on every keystroke and whenever it loses focus.
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ComboBox Data Binding
You can provide the simplest of data like a collection of numbers or strings, or entire models from your app – the Telerik ComboBox can handle all of them.
More about Data Binding a combo box
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ComboBox Filtering
Nobody wants to scroll through long lists of options, so the ComboBox lets you start typing the text you’re looking for, and it will filter the data to show you only the relevant items to choose from. You can control how many characters the user writes before they get the filtered list, what filter operator is used, and even implement your own filtering by, for example, requesting the items from the server every time.
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ComboBox Custom Values
The standard dropdowns require that you select one of a predefined list of options. The Telerik Blazor ComboBox lets you type in your own value for cases when the application developer could not have foreseen all the possible entries.
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Customizing ComboBox with Templates
You can customize the appearance of the Telerik ComboBox component through templates so that you can show the data in the desired manner – from adding more data than just the text (such as price), to implementing a grid-like multi-column dropdown with a few lines of CSS. You can modify the:
- ValueTemplate – what the user sees from the selected item
- Header – your own content above the list of items in the dropdown
- Footer – Always visible below the list of items
- ItemTemplate – how the individual items render, so you can add more than just their text
Check out the Combobox appearance customization demo
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ComboBox Validation
Built-in support for EditForm and DataAnnotation validation is a must, and it is available in all Telerik Blazor components, including the ComboBox.
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ComboBox Grouping
The Telerik Blazor ComboBox component provides built-in grouping functionality enabled through the GroupField parameter. It helps users navigate easily through the list and choose the items they desire.
Example of Blazor ComboBox Grouping
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ComboBox Globalization and Localization
While most of the ComboBox content comes from the application data, the few strings the component has in its own UI can be translated easily for users around the globe.
Check it out in the ComboBox Localization demo.
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ComboBox Popup Settings
The Blazor ComboBox allows you to configure its popup options from a single tag: define the minimum and maximum dimensions along with the width, height and class that are already existing parameters.
In addition to that, the Open and Close methods allow you to toggle the popup visibility without triggering the OnOpen/OnClose events.
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Virtualization
The Telerik UI for Blazor ComboBox supports virtualizing the elements in the list. This greatly improves response times when a particularly large amount of entries is loaded (e.g., a list of countries, currencies, brands, etc.). -
ComboBox TabIndex
The Blazor ComboBox component, just like all other Telerik UI for Blazor input components, supports keyboard navigation to switch between components thanks to the HTML TabIndex property. Pressing Tab will normally focus the next available input component, the same way your users are accustomed to when standard HTML inputs are used. Having the TabIndex setting lets you customize that order. -
Blazor ComboBox Accessibility and Keyboard Navigation
Semantic HTML and support for the accessibility standards (including WCAG, Section 508 and WAI-ARIA attributes for screen readers) let users with disabilities use the Telerik combo box with ease. The built-in keyboard support lets you navigate the component and select the desired item without having to touch a pointing device.
Learn more about the supported keys and user actions in the ComboBox Keyboard Navigation demo
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Blazor ComboBox Theming
The Telerik Blazor ComboBox has several built-in themes such as Default (our own styling), Material (based on the Material Design guidelines) and Bootstrap (which looks like the Bootstrap styling to integrate better). You can easily customize any of out-of-the-box themes with a few lines of CSS, or create a new theme to match your colors and branding by using the Telerik SASS ThemeBuilder application.
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