id

The identifier for the widget.

dataName

The name of the data element to which the widget is bound. This property is not mandatory. When there is no data need to be sent to the server, this property can be left blank.

urlForList

The urlForList property specifies the URL of the .js file that contains the data of the list of choices that are available for selection on the widget.

dataNameForList

The dataNameForList property specifies the name of the data, from a toolkit context or a JSON string, that holds the labels and values of the choices that are available for a user to select on the widget. This is an optional property.

labelField

The name of the field in data provider array objects (dataNameForList or urlForList) to use as the label field.

valueField

The name of the field in data provider array objects (dataNameForList or urlForList) to use as the value field.

visibility

The visibility property defines how a widget is displayed on a GUI. The following values can be specified for this property:

disabled

Disabled elements cannot have focus; do not receive or fire mouse events; and cannot receive user input. If you set this property to true, the widget is displayed on a GUI, but a user cannot interact with it. Data contained in a disabled widget is not processed when the form is submitted. The default value is false.

readOnly

To prevent a user from changing the value, set readOnly to true. The default value is false.

hint

A description of the widget that is displayed as a tooltip for a user. This property has multilingual support.

shortcut

Shortcut is a single character from the document character set. Pressing a shortcut assigned to a widget together with hot key of browser gives focus to the widget. Different widget may have different action when it receives focus. For example, when user activates a TextBox, this TextBox is focused and all texts are selected; when user activates a button, this button is focused and selected. The toolkit supports a shortcut function based on standard HTML access key and browser capability. That's mean the shortcut character and the hot key may be different in different browsers. For more information about HTML access keys, see:

Action for SelectList is : focus widget and select all text

Shortcut character: a-z 0-9 , . / ; ’ [ ]  = -

Hot key

Firefox: Shift + Alt + shortcut

IE: Alt + shortcut

Sample

Input on UDTT tooling: a

Usage on IE: Pressing Alt + a

styleClass

The styleClass property specifies the name of the CSS style ( also known as CSS style class) associated with the widget. This property is set by selecting a style from the CSS styles table in the Style tab of the Properties view. If you do not configure the styleClass property, the default style is used instead. For more detailed information, refer to Setting CSS style to widgets.

width

The width property specifies the width of the widget. This property is set in the Appearance tab of the Properties view.

typeAhead

This typeAhead property enables the editing function of the widget. The default value is false (read-only). When it is set True (editable), users can type in strings to filter the option, not manually type in the option.