I have an autocomplete extender attached to a textbox that returns a single, most likely match after 2 characters are typed in the textbox. I would like the single match to automatically fill the textbox rather than having the user select the match from
the dropdown (one item in dropdown). Sort of what a combobox does. I can't use a combobox because the list would be in the thousands. Is there anyway to do this? My code looks likes:
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AutoComplete functionality
Feb 24, 2012 12:07 AM|LINK
I have an autocomplete extender attached to a textbox that returns a single, most likely match after 2 characters are typed in the textbox. I would like the single match to automatically fill the textbox rather than having the user select the match from the dropdown (one item in dropdown). Sort of what a combobox does. I can't use a combobox because the list would be in the thousands. Is there anyway to do this? My code looks likes:
<td style="width:100px">Project Code:</td> <td><asp:TextBox ID="txtProjCode" runat="server" CssClass="txtReadOnlyLeft" AutoPostBack="true"></asp:TextBox> <asp:AutoCompleteExtender ID="autoProjCode" runat="server" ServicePath="~/AutoComplete.asmx" TargetControlID="txtProjCode" ServiceMethod="GetCompletionList" FirstRowSelected="true" MinimumPrefixLength="2" EnableCaching="true" ></asp:AutoCompleteExtender></td>