Is there onBind event for DDL?

[John]

If I have below js code for a DDL, which means defaultly select 1st one after rebind DDL:

DDLDataSource.read();
DDL.select(0);

It will select 1st one of previous datasouce.
I guess when running DDL.select(0), DDL rebind is not fully complete.

so questions:
1. why DDL hasn't a OnBind event so that we can walk around this situation?

[John DeVight]

Hi John,

I did some digging around the Kendo UI source code and it turns out that there is a dataBound event.

If I have the following HTML:

<input id="customers"></input>

And I initialize the dropdownlist like this:

var _customers = $("#customers").kendoDropDownList({

    index: 0,

    placeholder: "Select Customer",

    dataTextField: "CompanyName",

    dataValueField: "CustomerID",

    dataSource: {

        type: "odata",

        serverFiltering: true,

        serverPaging: true,

        pageSize: 20,

        transport: {

            read: "http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Customers"

        }

    }

}).data("kendoDropDownList");

I can bind to the dataBound event like this and select the desired item:

_customers.bind("dataBound", function() {

    _customers.select(5);

});

I've put together an example that you can look at on jsfiddle at: jsFiddle: DropDownList DataBound Event

Hope that helps...

Regards,

John DeVight

P.S. - If I answered your question, please mark my response as the answer :-)

[John]

Thanks John.
It works. Cheers!