If a combobox uses load-on-demand and an item is selected, after postback the item list will be filtered to only items that contain the text of the selected item. This type of filtered loading is desirable when the user is typing into the combobox and is expecting a reduced item list. However it can be unexpected behavior if an item is selected, the user was not typing into the combobox, a postback occurs, and then the item list has been reduced. This video demonstrates the current behavior: http://screencast.com/t/NVkDc3KYR And so my request is for the combobox items list to remain the same after postback when the user did not intend for the item list to be reduced.