Angular Dropdowns Overview
The Kendo UI for Angular Dropdowns are components for displaying predefined lists of options.
They include a variety of drop-down types and styles that have extensive configuration options. This flexibility allows you to quickly and easily create the exact Dropdowns component you need to fit your specific requirements for functionality and appearance.
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The Dropdowns are built from the ground up and specifically for Angular, so that you get high-performance drop-down controls which integrate tightly with your application and with the rest of the Kendo UI for Angular components.
Angular Dropdowns Example
Angular Dropdowns Key Features
Each Kendo UI for Angular Dropdowns component delivers a range of handy and developer-friendly features whose number and further development are not limited by the list in this section. The Kendo UI for Angular team constantly invests efforts to improve the performance and add more value to the existing Dropdowns library as well as develop new features and controls to it.
Data Binding
The Dropdowns support the binding of their data to lists of possible values which can contain primitive (strings and numbers) or complex (objects) items. Read more about the data binding of the AutoComplete...
Forms Support
All Dropdowns provide support both for the asynchronous template-driven Angular forms and the predominantly synchronous reactive Angular forms. This feature allows you to draw on the logic set either in the template, or in the component or typescript code. Read more about the forms support of the AutoComplete...
Filtering
Apart from their built-in filter functionality, the Dropdowns provide further options for fine-tuning and customizing the mechanism such as setting a minimum length of the search symbols, using the built-in filter directive, and more. Read more about filtering the AutoComplete items...
Virtualization
All Kendo UI for Angular Dropdowns that do not visualize hierarchical data in their popups provide a virtualization option which significantly improves the performance when working with large datasets. Read more about the virtualization functionality in the AutoComplete...
Grouping
All Kendo UI for Angular Dropdowns that do not visualize hierarchical data in their popups provide a grouping option. Read more about the grouping functionality in the AutoComplete...
Disabled Options
You can choose to disable some of the predefined list options of the Dropdowns so that, if need be present, users will not be able to interact with them. Read more about the disabled options in the AutoComplete...
Adaptive Mode
All Kendo UI for Angular Dropdowns support a mobile-friendly rendering mode of their popups. Enabling the adaptive mode allows the components to automatically fit to the current screen size. Read more about the adaptive mode in the AutoComplete...
Appearance
Each Kendo UI for Angular Dropdowns component offers extensive customization options, allowing you to tailor the look and feel to your preferences (size, border radius, and fill modes) for a refined and cohesive design. Read more about the customazible appearance of the AutoComplete...
Templates
You can visually customize the content and the general look and feel of the items and elements list by utilizing the ready-to-use header, footer, and other templates. Read more about the templates used by the AutoComplete...
Globalization
The Kendo UI for Angular Dropdowns support globalization to ensure that they can fit well in any application, no matter what languages and locales need to be supported. Additionally, the Dropdowns support rendering in a right-to-left (RTL) direction. Read more about Dropdowns globalization...
Accessibility
The Dropdowns are accessible for screen readers and support WAI-ARIA attributes. Read more about accessibility support of the AutoComplete...
Keyboard Navigation
The Dropdowns support a number of keyboard shortcuts which allow users to accomplish various commands. Read more about the keyboard navigation of the AutoComplete...
Licensing
The Kendo UI for Angular Dropdowns are part of the Kendo UI for Angular library. Kendo UI for Angular offers a 30-day trial with a full-featured version of the library—no restrictions! What’s more, you are eligible for full technical support during your trial period in case you have any questions. Sign up for a free 30-day trial of Kendo UI for Angular.
Support Options
For any questions about the use of Kendo UI for Angular Dropdowns, or any of our other components, there are several support options available:
- Kendo UI license holders and anyone in an active trial can take advantage of the Kendo UI for Angular outstanding customer support delivered by the actual developers who built the library. To submit a support ticket, use the Kendo UI support system.
- Kendo UI for Angular forums are part of the free support you can get from the community and from the Kendo UI team on all kinds of general issues.
- Kendo UI for Angular feedback portal and Kendo UI for Angular roadmap provide information on the features in discussion and also the planned ones for release.
- Kendo UI for Angular uses GitHub Issues as its bug tracker and you can submit any related reports there. Also, check out the closed list.
- Of course, the Kendo UI for Angular team is active on StackOverflow as well and you can find a wealth of questions and answers there.
- Need something unique that is tailor-made for your project? Progress offers its Progress Services group that can work with you to create any customized solution that you might need.