List Search Extender
ListSearchExtender is used with a ListBox control to Automatically select the item starting with the letters you type in the text box.
Properties
TargetControlID:
Prompt Position:
Used to specify where to display the prompt for the target control.
Prompt Text :
Used to specify the default promptText.
Prompt CSS class :
Used to specify the CSS class to use to display the prompt.
Example
The following example demonstrates how to use the list search extender.
Add a page to the website and then place a Toolkit Script Manager and a ListBox on the page and within the Listbox Add some Items.
Within HTML source of the page with in the head section create a CSS style with the name prompt as follws.
<style type=”text/css”>
.prompt
{
font-family:Arial Black;
font-size:medium;
color : Blue;
}
</style>
Within HTML Source itself Drag & drop a ListSearchExtender and set following properties to it.
<asp: ListsearchExtender Id=”ListSearchExtende1” runat=”server” TargetControlID=”L1” Promptposition=”Top” PromptText=”Type The text” promptcssclass=”prompt”> </asp:ListSearchExtender>
At runtime while focus is in the ListBox if you the text then the first Item in the LB starting with text you typed will automatically selected.