Open the DropDown When the Control Gets Focus

Updated on Dec 16, 2025

RadDateTimePicker's API gives you the ability to open the DropDown when the control gets focus. In order to enable this behavior, you should set the RadDateTimePicker's OpenDropDownOnFocus property to True.

Example 1: Set the OpenDropDownOnFocus property

XAML

	<telerik:RadDateTimePicker OpenDropDownOnFocus="True"/>

The default value of the RadDateTimePicker's OpenDropDownOnFocus property is False.

See Also

• How to implement custom parsing
• Keyboard Support