Search on filtering in EJ2 JavaScript Drop down list control

2 May 20233 minutes to read

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

var data=new ej.data.DataManager({
            url: 'https://services.odata.org/V4/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Customers',
            adaptor: new ej.data.ODataV4Adaptor(),
            crossDomain: true
    });
var customers = new ej.dropdowns.DropDownList({
    //bind the data manager instance to dataSource property
    dataSource : data,
    //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: "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) => {
        // set limit as 4 to search result
        let query = new ej.data.Query().select(['ContactName']).take(6);
        query = (e.text !== '') ? query.where('ContactName', 'startswith', e.text, true) : query;
        e.updateData(data, query);
    }
});

//render the component
customers.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://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>


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