Hi,

I am trying to find out how to implement type ahead on Drop down lists in asp.net1.1 using C#.
By Type ahead i mean that when you type 'a' the drop down takes you to list starting with 'a' but if you type 'ab' the drop down takles you to 'b' rather than taking you to list starting with 'ab'.I have tried couple of java scripts but none of them is working.Here are couple of them..

http://aspalliance.com/775
http://www.aspnetpro.com/newslettera...200411bm_l.asp

But none of them works.
If anyone and especially java script guys know what i am talking about ,please help me out.

Thanks a lot for your time and help.
Kamal

Ok, let me know if I understand what you are tring to do. You want to create a dropdown that if the user types 'a' the dropdown list will display all items starting with a then if the user types 'b' (the dropdown text would now be 'ab') the list will change to display all data that begins with the letter b.

Is that correct?

If it is correct I must pose the question: Why would you want to do this? From a useability standpoint I would be extremel frustrated if a site employed this kind of functionality in dropdown boxes.

Consider that the list of all items starting with 'a' is 1500 items long and I want to select 'Apple' from the list well, with the proposed functionality, I would type a letter a then have to scroll until I found apple, instead of being able to type 'app' and have a much smaller list returned.

And I just skimmed that aspalliance article but it should be fairly easy to edit that .js file to only grab that last character of the dropdownlist.

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Hi
Thanks for looking into this.Actually what i want is if i type 'a' the drop down displays all items with 'a' but if i type 'ap' then drop down list shows list starting with 'ap' .The in built capabiltiy of drop down list is to show 'a' and then 'p' which is quite frustrating as you said.
I am very naive in Java script so i wouldnt know even if it is a small change.I have tried to implement that code but it doesnt work.It says in explorer dont with error.

Thanks for help
Kamal

Look into this:

http://www.mredkj.com/vbnet/AutoComp...pdownlist.html

I have used it in the past and it works fairly well.

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Thanks for the code.I cant look into now as this website is blocked in our intranet.I will go home and test the code but one question ...Is this code in VB.Net? Will tell you tommorow if it worked or if i still need help.

Thanks a lot and Regards,
Kamal

Yes the code is in VB.

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Ok..so i will convert it into C# and i am sure i will have problems . I will have lots of questions tommorow.

So thanks a lot for your help...I really appreciate it...

Regards,
Kamal

Converting from VB to C# or vice versa is a trivial task. And the code on the above page is extremely simple and shouldnt be a problem converting to C#.

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Hi,
I tried your code but then i decided to create web custom control as my application is too big and have lots of web forms and each one of it has atleast 2 occurances of drop down list.The code now i am using is
http://stirtaputra.tripod.com/smartdropdownlist/

This is working very nicely except for the post back.On the postback my drop down needs to fetch data to other fields.But this smart dropdown doesnt work on the drop down.
Any suggestions will be helpful.

Thanks a lot
Kamal

Can somebody help me in this.Pleasee....If you have any clue any website,any web control....Please let me know....

I have checked metabuilders
Progsdemo

None of them works because of postback feature.

Thanks
Kamal