[Solved] Combobox selected not selected in combobox

[Gerard Eikelboom]

Hi,
I read an article in the Forum that combox UI doesn't care about the selected item and that it woukd be solved in the version 2010.3.1110.
Well we just implemented that version and I have a List wich returns an

List<SelectListItem> list = new List<SelectListItem>();

I have a peace of code in my controller class wich fills this list and also sets the selected for one of the list items:

foreach(var ws in UserWebshops)
                {
                    if (ws.WebShop_ID == UserDefaultWebshop)
                    {
                        list.Add(new SelectListItem {Text= ws.Omschrijving, Value= ws.WebShop_ID.ToString(), Selected=true});
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        list.Add(new SelectListItem { Text = ws.Omschrijving, Value = ws.WebShop_ID.ToString()});
                    }

                }

In my view I do an Ajax call to the controller. The data I get returned is the list with one item where 'selected=true'.
so the data returned seems to be ok.
Below how the data is bind to the combobox:

success: function (data) {
                    var comboBox = $("#UserDefaultWebshop").data("tComboBox");
                    comboBox.dataBind(data);

The dropdown is filled  but the selected item is not selected.
It seems I am doing somthing wrong, I hope you can help me with it.

Regards,
Gerard Eikelboom

[Georgi Krustev]

Hello Gerard,

 
Currently calling dataBind method does not update selected item. This is a known issue which will be fixed in the next official release of Telerik components for ASP.NET MVC. For now you can use this workaround:

var comboBox = $("#UserDefaultWebshop").data("tComboBox");
 comboBox.dataBind(data);
comboBox.select(comboBox.index);

Regards,
Georgi Krustev
the Telerik team