LostFocus change selected item

[Fabiano Damasceno]

Hi all,

I'm facing a strange behaviour. I have a RadComboBox, it is populated on server side, like this:

 

RadComboBox1.Items.Add(new Telerik.Web.UI.RadComboBoxItem("Value  1 - 1", "1"));
RadComboBox1.Items.Add(new Telerik.Web.UI.RadComboBoxItem("Value  1 - 2", "1"));
RadComboBox1.Items.Add(new Telerik.Web.UI.RadComboBoxItem("Value  1 - 3 ", "1"));
RadComboBox1.Items.Add(new Telerik.Web.UI.RadComboBoxItem("Value  2", "2"));

As can be see, three items have the same value (1). The problem is, in the client side, I select a item, for exemple, "Value 1 - 3", so, when the combobox last the focus, the item will be automatic set to "Value 1 - 1".

Why this happen? Is there a way to stop this?

Thanks.

[Kalina]

Hi,

The values of the RadComboBox items have to be unique - please take a look at the "RadComboBox selects a different item" help article.

Greetings,
Kalina
the Telerik team

[Fabiano Damasceno]

Thanks Kalina,

Is there a known way to work around it? I ask because it's realy necessary to have more then one item with the same value.

[Kalina]

Hello,

I am suggesting you set the item values to unique numbers.
Then you can store these repeating numbers that you currently set as values within the RadComboBoxItem Custom Attributes collection.  
Please find more details about Custom Attributes at this help article.

All the best,
Kalina
the Telerik team