The keyboard selection in the dropdownlist does not appear to work the same way the normal windows dropdownlist does. If I have several items that begin with the same first letter, and I repeatedly hit that letter in the normal dropdown, it cycles through all fo the items beginning with that letter. However, in the Telerik dropdownlist, it goes to the first item and then stays on it and does not cycle through them. Any thoughts on that?
Also, if I have the dropdownlist (and I think the combobox as well) on a form with several text boxes, and I move from one field to the next using the tab key, when I get to the dropdownlist and tab off, everything is fine. However, if I select the dropdownlist with the mouse, I can select the item from it, but when I hit tab, it does not move to the next item. It acts like the mouse select is not selecting that dropdownlist into the proper tab sequence. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
2 Answers, 1 is accepted
Straight onto your questions:
#1:
Currently, filtering functionality of the DropDownList will not traverse items which start with a concrete letter. Instead DropDownList (ComboBox too) assumes that the typed letters are part of one word.
I will forward this request to our developers for further investigation and possible implementation.
#2:
Currently this behavior is not supported. We will implement this functionality for the DropDownList (ComboBox will need further investigation ) in the next official release of Telerik components for ASP.NET MVC scheduled for the middle of March. For your convenience I have attached the modified JavaScript file which will allow to return focus over DropDownList after end user selects item from items list.
Georgi Krustev
the Telerik team
Rank 1
Is there any updates on this issue? Its still the same. Any solution expected in coming few months?