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  roma_victa

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  Selecting List box itam through textbox

  Jun 20, 2010 03:05 PM|LINK

  hi all,

  I have a listbox with some values and a textbox when i enter "a" to the textbox all items which starts with "a"

  should be shown and if i enter "ab" all the items with "ab" should be shown is there a way to do it

  Thanks in advance 

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  mbanavige

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  Re: Selecting List box itam through textbox

  Jun 20, 2010 03:10 PM|LINK

  Did you want to do this just with a webforms postback approach (not recommended)

  or how about using some client side code.

  you could do this with an autocomplete ajax extender

      http://www.asp.net/ajax/ajaxcontroltoolkit/Samples/AutoComplete/AutoComplete.aspx 

  there's also a number of jQuery autocomplete plugins too.  for example:

      http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-autocomplete/

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  Re: Selecting List box itam through textbox

  Jun 21, 2010 11:05 AM|LINK

  hi Mbanavige thanks for the replay i have all the data at page load and all the data will be listed in the list box and i dont need to use web service to get the data is there any other way other than this

   

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  Re: Selecting List box itam through textbox

  Jun 21, 2010 11:44 AM|LINK

  the autocomplete control here: http://jquery.bassistance.de/autocomplete/demo/  supports local data (a list of values embedded in your page and accessible to client script).

  so you dont necessarily need to make a webservice call if you used it.

   

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