tetxbox with drop down control and auto complete

Question

hi. in my Application i have text box beside it i have drop down control.

when the user clicks on the drop down . a list of items under the drop down control should be shown. but if user type any value in the text box ( like tom, james, peter). if that value is there in the drop down . i should move the cursor to that value.

hope my Question is clear. Any solution how to solve it would be great thank you

Answer 1

Sounds like you want something like the JQuery autocomplete plugin or if you prefer the ASP.NET AJAX Autocomplete control.

Edit- as you want a Combobox- JQuery has a lot of options for this. Here is one of them "Simple Combo".

Answer 2

what are you looking is,

http://www.asp.net/AJAX/AjaxControlToolkit/Samples/ComboBox/ComboBox.aspx

Just check it, Its autocomplete with dropdown