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Floating Label

A floating label is a placeholder text for form or input fields, which floats above that field and remains visible once the user starts interacting with that field.

To implement a floating label in the Telerik UI MultiColumnComboBox for ASP.NET MVC, define it either as a string or from a function handler.

The following example demonstrates how to set the floating label as a string:

    @(Html.Kendo().MultiColumnComboBox()
        .Name("products")
        .DataTextField("ProductName")
        .DataValueField("ProductID")
        .Label(label => {
            label.Content("Select a product...");
            label.Floating(true);
        })
        .Columns(columns =>
        {
            columns.Add().Field("ProductName").Title("Name");
            columns.Add().Field("ProductID").Title("ID");
        })
        .HtmlAttributes(new { style = "width:100%;" })
        .Filter(FilterType.Contains)
        .DataSource(source =>
        {
            source.Read(read =>
            {
                read.Action("ServerFiltering_GetProducts", "MultiColumnComboBox");
            });
        })
    )

The following example demonstrates how to set the floating label from a function handler:

    @(Html.Kendo().MultiColumnComboBox()
        .Name("products")
        .DataTextField("ProductName")
        .DataValueField("ProductID")
        .Label(label => {
            label.ContentHandler("contentHandler");
            label.Floating(true);
        })
        .Columns(columns =>
        {
            columns.Add().Field("ProductName").Title("Name");
            columns.Add().Field("ProductID").Title("ID");
        })
        .HtmlAttributes(new { style = "width:100%;" })
        .Filter(FilterType.Contains)
        .DataSource(source =>
        {
            source.Read(read =>
            {
                read.Action("ServerFiltering_GetProducts", "MultiColumnComboBox");
            });
        })
    )

    <script>
        function contentHandler(){
            return "Select a product...";
        }
    </script>

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