jQWidgets jqxComboBox getItemByValue() Method

Last Updated : 10 Aug, 2021

jQWidgets is a JavaScript framework for making web-based applications for PC and mobile devices. It is a very powerful, optimized, platform-independent, and widely supported framework. The jqxComboBox is used to represent a jQuery Combobox widget that contains an input field with auto-complete functionality and a list of selectable items displayed in a drop-down.

The getItemByValue() method is used to get an item by its value. It accepts a single parameter value of String type and it returns an object element.

The returned value is an Object with the following fields.

label
value
disabled
checked
hasThreeStates
html
index
group

Syntax:

$('selector').jqxComboBox('disableItem', 'Item' );

Linked Files: Download jQWidgets from the link. In the HTML file, locate the script files in the downloaded folder.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css” type=”text/css” />
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqx-all.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxcore.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxcolorpicker.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”.jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxlistbox.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxcombobox.js”></script>

Example: The below example illustrates the jqxComboBox getItemByValue() method in jQWidgets.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" href= 
        "jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css" type="text/css" /> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqx-all.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxcore.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxcolorpicker.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src=".jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxlistbox.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxcombobox.js"></script> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <center> 
        <h1 style="color: green;"> 
            GeeksforGeeks 
        </h1> 
  
        <h3> 
            jQWidgets jqxComboBox getItemByValue() Method 
        </h3> 
  
        <div id='jqxCB'></div> 
        <br> 
        <input type="button" id='jqxBtn' 
            style="padding: 5px 20px;"
            value="Get Item by Value" /> 
    </center> 
  
    <script type="text/javascript"> 
        $(document).ready(function () { 
            var data = [ 
                "Computer Science", 
                "C Programming", 
                "C++ Programming", 
                "Java Programming", 
                "Python Programming", 
                "HTML", 
                "CSS", 
                "JavaScript", 
                "jQuery", 
                "PHP", 
                "Bootstrap" 
            ]; 
  
            $("#jqxCB").jqxComboBox({ 
                source: data, 
                width: '250px', 
                animationType: 'slide' 
            }); 
  
            var item = $("#jqxCB").jqxComboBox( 
                'getItemByValue', "Python Programming"); 
  
            $('#jqxBtn').on('click', function () { 
                alert(item.label); 
            }); 
        }); 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html>