Getting reference to kendoAutoComplete in change event

[Brian Vallelunga]

I'm trying to use the AutoComplete control in an unbounded list of table rows. When the user clicks an add button, a new row is added and a new AutoComplete is created within that row.

This works well enough, but I'm trying to figure out how to get a reference to the AutoComplete instance from within a change event handler. Actually, I'd like to get at both the AutoComplete object and the initial input control it is based off of.

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi,

 Which change handler are you referring to? The one of the autocomplete or something else?

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

[Brian Vallelunga]

Yes, the AutoComplete change event handler. After trying a few more things, I realized that "this" actually references the AutoComplete control. Is there an easy way to get from the AutoComplete control to the underlying input box though?

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello,

 The "element" field is a jQuery object pointing to the original input:

var input = this.element;

To get the underlying DOM element you could use this code:

var input = this.element[0];

All the best,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team