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Templates

The ComboBox provides full control over the way an item, a selected value, or a pop-up header is rendered through the Kendo UI for jQuery templates.

For more information on the capabilities and syntax of the templates, refer to this documentation article. For a runnable example, refer to the demo on customizing the templates in the ComboBox.

Basic Usage

The following example demonstrates how to customize the ComboBox by referencing a script tag by its id.

    @(Html.Kendo().ComboBox()
        .Name("customers")
        .DataTextField("ContactName")
        .DataValueField("CustomerID")
        .TemplateId("itemTemplate") // Reference to the template.
        .DataSource(source =>
        {
            source.Read(read =>
            {
                read.Action("Template_GetCustomers", "ComboBox");
            });
        })
    )
<script id="itemTemplate" type="text/x-kendo-template">
    ContactName: #:data.ContactName#, CustomerID: #:data.CustomerID#
</script>

The following example demonstrates how to customize the ComboBox by declaring an inline string.

    @(Html.Kendo().ComboBox()
        .Name("customers")
        .DataTextField("ContactName")
        .DataValueField("CustomerID")
        .Template("<span><h3>#: data.ContactName #</h3><p>#: data.CompanyName #</p></span>")
        .DataSource(source =>
        {
            source.Read(read =>
            {
                read.Action("Template_GetCustomers", "ComboBox");
            });
        })
    )

Item Template

The item template manages the way the list items of a ComboBox are rendered.

The following example demonstrates how to define an item template and how to evaluate it against the dataItem.


    @(Html.Kendo().DropDownList()
        .Name("customers")
        .DataTextField("ContactName")
        .DataValueField("CustomerID")
        .TemplateId("itemTemplate") // Reference to the template.
        .DataSource(source =>
        {
            source.Read(read =>
            {
                read.Action("Template_GetCustomers", "ComboBox");
            });
        })
    )
    <script id="itemTemplate" type="text/x-kendo-template">
        ContactName: #:data.ContactName#, CustomerID: #:data.CustomerID#
    </script>

Header Templates

The header template manages the way the popup header of a ComboBox is rendered.


    @(Html.Kendo().ComboBox()
        .Name("customers")
        .DataTextField("ContactName")
        .DataValueField("CustomerID")
        .HeaderTemplateId("headerTemplate") // Reference to the template.
        .DataSource(source =>
        {
            source.Read(read =>
            {
                read.Action("Template_GetCustomers", "ComboBox");
            });
        })
    )
    <script id="headerTemplate" type="text/x-kendo-template">
        <strong>Header</strong>
    </script>

The footer template manages the way the popup footer of a ComboBox is rendered. The footer is re-rendered on every change of the Data Source. The context of the template is the widget itself.

    @(Html.Kendo().ComboBox()
        .Name("customers")
        .DataTextField("ContactName")
        .DataValueField("CustomerID")
        .FooterTemplateId("footerTemplate") // Reference to the template.
        .DataSource(source =>
        {
            source.Read(read =>
            {
                read.Action("Template_GetCustomers", "ComboBox");
            });
        })
    )
    <script id="footerTemplate" type="text/x-kendo-template">
        Total <strong>#: instance.dataSource.total() #</strong> items found
    </script>

No-Data Templates

The ComboBox displays noDataTemplate in the popup when the data source is empty.

    @(Html.Kendo().ComboBox()
        .Name("customers")
        .DataTextField("ContactName")
        .DataValueField("CustomerID")
        .NoDataTemplateId("noDataTemplate") //Reference to the template
        .DataSource(source =>
        {
            source.Read(read =>
            {
                read.Action("Template_GetCustomers", "ComboBox");
            });
        })
    )
    <script id="noDataTemplate" type="text/x-kendo-template">
        <strong>No Data!</strong>
    </script>

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