WebDropDown™ can automatically suggest matching list items to your users after only a few keypresses, thereby helping them to find the choice they want to make in less time and with greater accuracy.

WebDropDown™ will display its list of values in a dropdown window when the user asks it to dropdown (for example, by clicking its dropdown button), otherwise it takes up only the space required for its editable field.  The dropdown window that appears doesn't disturb other HTML on your form or window, instead it appears in front of it like a dropdown in a Windows Forms-based application would.

The dropdown control can optimize the use of your user's network bandwidth by requesting list items only when the user wants to see them (for example, by scrolling the list to display more of its items). You can also use an ASP.NET template to completely customize the appearance of the Loading... message displayed to the user, as additional list items are being loaded

WebDropDown™ can optionally allow users to select multiple items from a value list, as shown in this screenshot in which checkboxes are shown for each item in the dropdown. Several other common UI conventions for multiple selection such as Ctrl- and Shift- clicking items in the list are also supported.

What happens if the user wants to specify a value not present in the value list? Well, you can optionally set WebDropDown™ to persist any new values the user has entered in the edit field, and those new values will become a part of the value list that the user sees thereafter.

When your value list becomes too long to display conveniently in the vertical space you have available to you in the browser window, you can enable the dropdown control's support for Data Paging. This feature will display value list items one page at a time, making it much easier for users to deal with the length of the value list.

We have included a number of professionally-designed style sets for use with the dropdown control so that you can get started right away. With its full support for the Infragistics Application Styling Framework™ built-in, you can easily re-style all of the dropdowns in your application with one global setting.

By embracing ASP.NET templates at the item level and elsewhere, you can customize the appearance of the dropdown control so that it displays multiple columns like the 3-column dropdown shown here, or any other kind of layout your application may require.

Help users supply valid data the first time, with the WebDropDown™ editor control.  With support for ASP.NET validators like the Required Input validator shown here, your data-entry Web forms can check the user's entries on the client-side.  This relieves you from having to post back data for processing on the server only to find some necessary data was missing or invalid, and improves the user experience of your Web form.