Chapter 4. Fun with Combo Boxes and Date Fields

This chapter teaches you the following recipes:

• Using the combo box with local data

• Displaying remote data with a combo box

• Combo box with autocomplete

• How the combo box helps you to type

• Converting an HTML drop-down list into an Ext combo box

• Cascading combo boxes

• Using templates to change the look of combo box items

• Using paging to handle a large number of combo box items

• The different ways to set up disabled dates in a date field

• The date range selector

Introduction

Combo boxes and date fields are combinations of the edit and list fields. They support safe data input and save space in your user interface. The recipes in this chapter explore the advantages of these widgets as well as their efficiency trade-offs.