Autocomplete textbox woth semicolon-separated value

[Zakir]

Hi,

Im using telerik auto complete textbox.
when i pastes a semicolon-separated list of entries into RadAutoCompleteBox,
and on TAB press it returns only last semicolon seperated value into token.

How to get all semicolon-separated value in to separate tokan?

Thank You
Zakir

[Dimitar]

Hi Zakir,

In order to create RadAutoCompleteBox tokens on pasting a semicolon-separated list of entries, you can use the RadAutoCompleteBox OnClientLoad event to register a handler for the "paste" event. This handler should parse the text and create entries. This feature can be achieved with the following javascript:

var $ = $telerik.$;

function OnClientLoad(sender) {

    $(".racInput").on("paste", function (e) {
        var $this = $(this);

        setTimeout(function () { //break the callstack to let the event finish

            var text = $this.val();

            var lastChar = text.charAt(text.length - 1);
            var myText = text;

            if (lastChar === ";") {
                var myText = text.substr(0, text.length - 1);
            }

            var array = myText.split(';')

            for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
                var currEntryText = array[i];

                var entry = new Telerik.Web.UI.AutoCompleteBoxEntry();
                entry.set_text(currEntryText);
                sender.get_entries().add(entry);
            }
        }, 0);
    })
}

In the example above, we have covered the cases when the list pasted ends with and without a delimiter.
You can modify the text processing part of the script to cover the use cases relevant for your scenarios.

Regards,
Dimitar
Telerik

 

 

[Zakir]

Hi Dimiltar,

This is exactly what I want!
Thank you for your valuable reply. :)