Client-side findItemByText

[Steve]

I have a simple "State" dropdown where the text values of items are the abbreviations of States (e.g. "VA").  I allow the user to type in a custom value because I didn't want to put a "Select State" kind of option but want to use filtering.  Anyway, user types in "va" and the client-side "findItemByText" does not find the item for "VA".  Is there any way to get this method to NOT be case sensitive?

[Veselin Vasilev]

Hello Steve,

By default Filtering is not case sensitive. The javascript method findItemByText is case sensitive.

You need to define your own client method to work as case insensitive. Here is the code:

function findItemByText2(theText)
{
    var combo = $find("<%= RadComboBox1.ClientID %>");
    var items = combo.get_items();
    var itemsCount = items.get_count();

    for (var i = 0; i < itemsCount; i++)
    {
        var item = items.getItem(i);
        if (item.get_text().toLowerCase() == theText.toLowerCase())
        {
            return item;
        }
    }
    return null;
}

I hope this helps.

Greetings,
Veselin Vasilev
the Telerik team

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[Steve]

Yep, I knew your solution was a possibility.  I was hoping not to have to manually traverse the item collection just to find a match.  Would be nice if there was a property in the future to instruct that method how to compare.  Seems pretty straightforward to me.  Thanks for the response.

[Veselin Vasilev]

Hi Steve,

If we were to create the method - we would do it in a similar way.

Regards,
Veselin Vasilev
the Telerik team

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