How to display all items in the autocomplete widget

[Douglas]

Hi,

Is it possible to display all available items in autocomplete widget without changing the source code?

I’ve got something like this, that is an attempt to open the options when textfield receives focus, but it is not working.

 $("#myAutoComplete").kendoAutoComplete({
dataSource: ["Item1", "Item2"],
delay: 100,
minLength: 0
});

 $("#myAutoComplete").focus(function () {
$("#myAutoComplete").data("kendoAutoComplete").search("");
});

Thanks
Doug

[Dimo]

Hi Doug,

The AutoComplete widget has not been designed to return all items or to "search" by an empty string.

Theoretically, you could achieve the desired behavior by using server-side filtering and using some "magic" search string, that will be recognized by the web service, which will return all data items in that case.

Alternatively, if the total number of items is reasonable and will not cause a browser hang, use the ComboBox widget instead.

http://demos.kendoui.com/web/combobox/serverfiltering.html

Regards,
Dimo
Telerik

[Douglas]

Thanks this is what we have done.

[oasys]

The feature has not yet been implemented but you could have a look here : http://dojo.telerik.com/utosu/3 
There are still some css adjustments to be done with the close icon when the list is shown.

It would be nice if this would be inserted in a future release.