Hi,
I guess that you want to select the first Item from the dropdown based on the text in the RadComboBox. Please have a look into the sample code snippet which works fine at my end.
ASPX:
<
telerik:RadComboBox
ID
=
"RadComboBox1"
runat
=
"server"
EmptyMessage
=
"Type an E-mail"
AllowCustomText
=
"true"
DataSourceID
=
"SqlDataSource1"
DataTextField
=
"ContactName"
MarkFirstMatch
=
"true"
OnClientBlur
=
"selectItem"
>
</
telerik:RadComboBox
>
JavaScript:
function
selectItem(sender, args) {
var
firstChar = sender.get_text().charAt(0);
var
i, count = sender.get_items().get_count();
for
(
var
i = 0; i < count; i++) {
if
(sender.get_items().getItem(i).get_text().startsWith(firstChar)) {
alert(sender.get_items().getItem(i).get_text());
sender.get_items().getItem(i).select();
break
;
}
}
}
Thanks,
Princy.