Remote data bind in EJ2 JavaScript Drop down list control

4 May 20234 minutes to read

Before component rendering, you can get the total items count by using actionComplete  event with its result arguments. After rendering this component, you can get the total items count by using getItems method.

The following example demonstrate how to get the total items count.

var customers = new ej.dropdowns.DropDownList({
    //bind the data manager instance to dataSource property
    dataSource: new ej.data.DataManager({
            url: 'https://services.odata.org/V4/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Customers',
            adaptor: new ej.data.ODataV4Adaptor(),
            crossDomain: true
    }),
    //bind the Query instance to query property
    query: new ej.data.Query().select(['ContactName']).take(6),
    //map the appropriate columns to fields property
    fields: { value: 'ContactName'},
    //set the placeholder to DropDownList input
    placeholder: "Find a customer",
     //sort the resulted items
    aactionComplete: function (e) {
        // get total items count
        console.log("Total items count: " + e.result.length);
        let element = document.createElement('p');
        element.innerText = "Total items count: " + e.result.length;
        document.getElementById('event').append(element);
    }
});

//render the component
customers.appendTo('#ddlelement');

document.getElementById('btn').onclick = () => {
    // get items count using getItems method
    console.log("Total items count: " + customers.getItems().length);
    let element = document.createElement('p');
    element.innerText = "Total items count: " + customers.getItems().length;
    document.getElementById('event').append(element);
};
<!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://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div id="container" style="margin:0 auto; width:250px;">
        <br>
        <input type="text" id="ddlelement">
        <div style="margin: 50px">
          <button id="btn" class="e-btn e-control"> Get items</button>
        </div>
        <p id="event"> </p>
    </div>    

<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
  ele.style.visibility = "visible";
}   
      </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>