Before control rendering, you can get the total items count by using actionComplete event with its result arguments.
After rendering this control, you can get the total items count by using getItems
method.
The following example demonstrate how to get the total items count.
<ejs-button id="btn" content="Get Items"></ejs-button>
<div class="control-wrapper">
<div id="default" style='padding-top:75px;'>
<ejs-dropdownlist id="customers" query="new ej.data.Query().from('Customers').select(['ContactName', 'CustomerID']).take(6)" placeholder="Select a customer" popupHeight="200px">
<e-dropdownlist-fields text="ContactName" value="CustomerID"></e-dropdownlist-fields>
<e-data-manager url="https://services.odata.org/V4/Northwind/Northwind.svc/" adaptor="ODataV4Adaptor" crossDomain="true"></e-data-manager>
</ejs-dropdownlist>
</div>
</div>
<p id='event'> </p>
<script>
document.getElementById('btn').onclick = () => {
var element = document.createElement('p');
document.getElementById("event").innerHTML = "";
var Obj = document.getElementById("customers").ej2_instances[0];
element.innerText = "Total items count: " + Obj.getItems().length;
document.getElementById('event').append(element);
};
</script>
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using WebApplication1.Models;
namespace WebApplication1.Controllers
{
public class DropDownListController : Controller
{
public ActionResult totalcount()
{
return View();
}
}
}