DropDownEditSettings.SetDropDownWindowTemplateContent(Action<TemplateContainerBase>) Method

Allows you to provide a template for rendering the dropdown window’s content.

Namespace: DevExpress.Web.Mvc

Assembly: DevExpress.Web.Mvc5.v23.2.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Web.Mvc5

Declaration

C#

public void SetDropDownWindowTemplateContent(
    Action<TemplateContainerBase> contentMethod
)

VB.NET

Public Sub SetDropDownWindowTemplateContent(
    contentMethod As Action(Of TemplateContainerBase)
)

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
contentMethod	Action<TemplateContainerBase>	A method to which a template content rendering is delegated.

Remarks

column.SetEditCellTemplateContent(c => {
    ViewContext.Writer.Write(Html.Hidden("hiddenID", DataBinder.Eval(c.DataItem, "ItemId")).ToHtmlString());
    Html.DevExpress().DropDownEdit(dde => {
        dde.Name = "ItemId";
        dde.SetDropDownWindowTemplateContent(content => {
            Html.RenderAction("TreeListPartial");
        });
    }).Bind(DataBinder.Eval(c.DataItem,"ItemId")).Render();
});

Note

Once a template defined using the SetDropDownWindowTemplateContent method is created, it is instantiated within a container object of the TemplateContainerBase type. This container object exposes a set of members which can be useful when designing a template.