Found the solution.

var cbo = igcmbo_getComboById('<%=combo.ClientID %>');       
var text = cbo.getInputBox().value;

 

My issue is similar but not same. I have an editable webcombo (7.1). I want to validate client side for an entry in the combo. User could either select a value or type-in a new value that is not part of the list.

It would be great if someone could let me know how to access this text user entered in the combo.

I'm able to get the value in server side by combo.Text, I tried getDisplayText, getText both didn't work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thx.

That sounds like a bug. Type ahead should work with Editable set to
false... Could you contact dev support please? That way you'll get
notified when it's fixed. Thanks.

Hi,

We've just tried your suggestion and set the editable property to false:

No matter what value we set on the property ComboTypeAhead, the user can not search an entry in the list. It seems it is not possible to have the suggest-mode without the editable Property set to true, because as soon as you set it to false the input-field is disabled, so no entry (in our case for search) is possible.

 Thanks for your help

Stefan

 

Hi,

We had a tremendous amount of requests for a feature that enables users
to enter values that are not present in the webcombo. So we added that
in the 8.2 release. In order to be able to do so the Editable property
should be set and the DataTextField and DataValueField must be pointing
to the same field as the combo wouldn't be able to guess value for the
entered text.

For your needs instead of turning the Editable property on try one of
the type ahead modes (ComboTypeAhead property).