Autoselect when lose focus

[Romeu]

Hi, I identified that when using a data source with serverFiltering enabled, while the user is typing something in the input the list of items are being filtered as well, when for example just 2 items remains in the list and the user press the tab button or just click outside making the component loses its focus nothing is selected in the combo. I would like that when the list of items still is open and I loses its focus the first item is auto selected.

I ended up doing something like this:

widget._events.change.push(function (event) {
               var minLength = $(element).attr("data-odata-minlength") || 2;
               var value = widget.value().trim();
               if (value != '' && value.length >= Number(minLength) && widget.dataItem() == undefined && widget._data().length > 0) {
                   var firstItem = widget._data()[0];
                   setTimeout(function () {
                       $.each(widget._data(), function (index, item) {
                           if (item.Id == firstItem.Id) {
                               widget.select(index);
                               return false;
                           }
                       });
                   }, 100);
                    }
           });

I don't like the idead of having a setTimeout function to set the select item but when I simply set the select without using the setTimeout function it works but something triggered after the change/close events resets my alteration and the selectIndex becomes -1.

Any tips?

Thanks.

[Georgi Krustev]

Hello Romeu,

I answered to the support thread opened on the same subject. Here is a quote of the answer:

I would strongly suggest you use the widget's bind method to attache events. Using a private fields is not safe as they can be renamed in future releases of Kendo UI. I prepared a simple Kendo Dojo demo to show how to select first item if a custom value or an incomplete one has been entered.

I will ask you to continue our conversation in only one thread to avoid any duplication. Thank you for the understanding.

Regards,
Georgi Krustev
Telerik