[Solved] RadComboBox and jquery

[wnl]

Hi,
I want to find RadComboBox on a page with jquery and set some text to this control. My code:

$telerik.$("[id$='RadComboBox1']").set_text('sas');

but it doesn't work properly. Why?
With $find it works fine:

contentWin.$find("RadComboBox1").set_text('asdfgh')

[Veselin Vasilev]

Hello Jaromin Sycz,

The jQuery selector finds the DOM element while you need to find the RadComboBox javascript object. That is why the $find method works in your case.

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Veselin Vasilev
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[wnl]

Add how to find 'RadComboBox1' when I'm using master pages and some chars are added to the id eg. 'ctl00_' but I don't know these before?

[Alex Gyoshev]

Hi Jaromin,

The server-side property RadComboBox1.ClientID gives you the client ID of the combo. Therefore, you can use:

contentWin.$find("<%= RadComboBox1.ClientID %>").set_text('asdfgh')

The approach above is faster, but to make this answer complete: you can also use the following jQuery:

$telerik.$("[id$='RadComboBox1']")[0].control.set_text('sas');

Regards,
Alex
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