optgroup support?

[sitefinitysteve]

Will kendo have native optgroup suppose anytime soon?

<select>
                <optgroup label="Social Icons">
                    <option value="icon-phone">icon-phone</option>
                    <option value="icon-phone-sign">icon-phone-sign</option>
                    <option value="icon-facebook">icon-facebook</option>
                    <option value="icon-facebook-sign">icon-facebook-sign</option>
                    <option value="icon-twitter">icon-twitter</option>
                    <option value="icon-twitter-sign">icon-twitter-sign</option>
                    <option value="icon-github">icon-github</option>
                    <option value="icon-github-alt">icon-github-alt</option>
                    <option value="icon-github-sign">icon-github-sign</option>
                    <option value="icon-linkedin">icon-linkedin</option>
                    <option value="icon-linkedin-sign">icon-linkedin-sign</option>
                    <option value="icon-pinterest">icon-pinterest</option>
                    <option value="icon-pinterest-sign">icon-pinterest-sign</option>
                    <option value="icon-google-plus">icon-google-plus</option>
                    <option value="icon-google-plus-sign">icon-google-plus-sign</option>
                    <option value="icon-sign-blank">icon-sign-blank</option>
                </optgroup>
                <optgroup label="Medical Icons">
                    <option value="icon-ambulance">icon-ambulance</option>
                    <option value="icon-beaker">icon-beaker</option>
                    <option value="icon-h-sign">icon-h-sign</option>
                    <option value="icon-hospital">icon-hospital</option>
                    <option value="icon-medkit">icon-medkit</option>
                    <option value="icon-plus-sign-alt">icon-plus-sign-alt</option>
                    <option value="icon-stethoscope">icon-stethoscope</option>
                    <option value="icon-user-md">icon-user-md</option>
                </optgroup>
            </select>

[Georgi Krustev]

Hello Steve,

 
The group support for AutoComplete/ComboBox/DropDownList/MultiSelect is in our ToDo list, but currently we have task with higher priorities and we cannot commit with a concrete time frame.

Regards,
Georgi Krustev
the Telerik team

[sitefinitysteve]

Thanks, just as an FYI I tried to bind directly to this: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/wiki/Font-Awesome-HTML-Dropdown-Select-List

Hacked around by extracting the text\values from the "hidden" html into JS objects then re-binding to kendo.  Would love that group support sometime.

[Alexander]

really optgroup will be useful

[Karl]

Any movement on this functionality ?

I have the same requirements , have recently started evaluating KendoUI  (downloaded precompiled versions from the Kendo web site a few days ago), and do not see any support for OptGroup in ComboBox. 

 

[Alexander Valchev]

Hi Karl,

The functionality is not supported when the widgets are bound to DataSource.
See the following help topic: http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/controls/editors/combobox/grouping

Demo: http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/dropdownlist/grouping

Regards,
Alexander Valchev
Telerik

 

 

[Karl]

I am not binding the widget to a DataSource.

The HTML SELECT is within the webpage (similar to the original poster of this thread) and OPTGROUP is not working.

[Alexander Valchev]

Hello Karl,

Grouping is supported only when the widget is bound to a grouped dataSource.

Regards,
Alexander Valchev
Telerik