Getting the value of the comboBox not at the selected index

[bsetzParticipant]

Hi,

I’ve run into this edge case with the combo box where I need to get the text entered into the box that is not in the predefined list. Let’s say the list contains “lime green”, but I want to allow the user to input “lime”, which is not in the predefined list. When typing into the box, it will auto select the index for “lime green”. When I call $(‘#myComboBox’).val(), it will get the value of the selected index, grabbing whatever I have set as the value member for “lime green”, instead of it using the jQuery functionality and retrieving the text within the box. This issue does not arise if I enter in a value that cannot be auto-completed to an item within the list, because then the selected index will be -1 and calling .val() will utilize jQuery’s functionality, and retrieve the text entered.

How can I make sure that I am getting the text inside the box and not the value of the item in the combo box?

Thanks,

[bsetzParticipant]

Found a solution, because the combobox html properties are built dynamically, there is no unique id for the input box to grab the text from. So instead I dive into all the div’s that get generated beneath my combobox $(‘#myComboBox’). The input tag is under one 3 layers of div, so calling $(‘#dropdownlistContentmyComboBox‘).val() will always retrieve the text inside the combo box. I believe the dropdownlistContent is always static, and what follows is the unique ID for the combo box.

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