Kendo UI for jQuery DropDownList Overview

The jQuery DropDownList allows you to display a single selection from a list of choices, and provides virtualization and customization through templates.

In this demo, you can see the DropDownList with enabled templates and cascading functionality.

The Kendo UI for jQuery DropDownList control is part of Kendo UI for jQuery, a comprehensive, professional-grade UI library for building modern and feature-rich applications. The Kendo UI for jQuery collection provides 110+ UI components, an abundance of data-visualization gadgets, client-side data source, and a built-in MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) library.

This DropDownList example is part of a unique collection of hundreds of jQuery demos, with which you can see all Kendo UI for jQuery components and their features in action. View the source code of the demos from the library or directly adapt, and edit them and their theme appearance in Kendo UI for jQuery Dojo or ThemeBuilder.

• Data binding–Allows you to bind the DropDownList DataSource either to local arrays of data or to remote data.
• Grouping–The DropDownList grouping functionality enables you to display data items that are categorized by a specific model field.
• Server Filtering–You can control the filtering functionality of the DropDownList and filter the data on the server.
• Virtualization–The virtualization functionality improves performance when large data is loaded in the DropDownList. It uses a fixed amount of list items in the popup list regardless of the dataset size.
• Templates–The DropDownList templates allow you to customize the rendering of items, selected values, and popup headers
• Cascading–The cascading functionality provides the ability to configure series of DropDownList where the items loaded in each DropDownList components depends on the selection in the previous DropDownlist.
• Accessibility–The DropDownList is accessible for screen readers, supports WAI-ARIA attributes, and delivers keyboard shortcuts for faster navigation.