Search on filtering in EJ2 TypeScript Drop down list control

2 May 20233 minutes to read

The following example demonstrates about how to set limit the search result on filtering.

import { DropDownList, FilteringEventArgs } from '@syncfusion/ej2-dropdowns';
import { Query, DataManager, ODataV4Adaptor } from '@syncfusion/ej2-data';

let searchData: DataManager = new DataManager({
    url: 'https://services.odata.org/V4/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Customers',
    adaptor: new ODataV4Adaptor,
    crossDomain: true
});

let filter: DropDownList = new DropDownList({
    // set the remote data to dataSource property
    dataSource: searchData,
    // bind the Query instance to query property
    query: new Query().select(['ContactName', 'CustomerID']).take(7),
    // map the appropriate column
    fields: { text: 'ContactName', value: 'CustomerID' },
    // set placeholder to DropDownList input element
    placeholder:"Select a name",
    // sort the resulted items
    sortOrder: 'Ascending',
    // set true to allowFiltering for enable filtering supports
    allowFiltering: true,
    // bind the filtering event handler
    filtering: (e: FilteringEventArgs) => {
        // set limit as 4 to search result
        let query: Query = new Query().select(['ContactName', 'CustomerID']).take(4);
        query = (e.text !== '') ? query.where('ContactName', 'startswith', e.text, true) : query;
        e.updateData(searchData, query);
    }
});
filter.appendTo('#ddlelement');
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Essential JS 2 DropDownList</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript UI Controls" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-dropdowns/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <div id='loader'>LOADING....</div>
    <div id='container' style="margin:0 auto; width:250px;">
        <br>
        <input type="text" id='ddlelement' />
    </div>
</body>

</html>