Currently it seems that kendoDropDown only supports select elements with options and not optgroups. Would like to see this widget support select elements with both optgroup and option elements.

New control ComboBox with CheckBoxes

Currently when you enter custom text (referred to as custom value) the control sets the text entered as both the TEXT and VALUE.

I suggest this should operate like the Telerik ASP.NET combobox which only binds custom entered text to TEXT and null as the VALUE.

This then allows you to differentiate between an item selected from the list and one entered.  When you call text() it would return the selected item text or custom text entered and value() would return the selected item data value or NULL if custom text.

There are a couple of things that are very common that I would like to add buttons for.  The first is for clearing the value and the second is a + for adding new items to the list.

The + button is an important one from a usability standpoint.  Quite often the combo/dropdown is populated from a list that is managed on a separate page.  It is too cumbersome to have to use stop entering and go to the admin page to add the new item and then come back to add whatever they were working on previously.

I know I could simply add a button beside the widget but this just doesn't look as nice as it being built in.

When using IE10/11, it natively supports the clearing of input element so essentially when hovering over a Kendo ComboBox with a selected value, this is the end result:

http://i1256.photobucket.com/albums/ii484/vobreshkov/KendoComboBox_IE.png?t=1376577876

I am constantly getting requests to have such way (or adding an extra menu item) to my combo boxes to allow users to click on something and clear the selection. Please consider extending similar functionality to the combo box that is available on all browsers.

The option to allow new items to be added to the list, as opposed to items exclusively in the datasource.

For example see this: http://jsbin.com/iXEtonO/4/edit, only built in

Check out this idea. It may help solve this issue and help with UI presentation.
http://feedback.kendoui.com/forums/127393-kendo-ui-feedback/suggestions/3767009-treeview-in-combobox

Admin edit: A Knowledge Base article that shows how you can achieve this: https://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/knowledge-base/disable-multiselect-items

A kendoDropDownList places an arrow to the right of the <select/> element, indicating it's a dropdown (.k-i-arrow-s). It would be cool if kendoMultISelect did the same thing. 
Clicking the <select/> element or the arrow should also toggle the visibility on the list items.

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31825788/kendo-multiselect-to-have-arrow-icon-and-behavior-to-close-on-click .

The grid and autocomplete widgets really need no-data templates which display when the returned data is empty. The MVC controls were pretty good at this.

Fast and responsive UI rather then flaunt and animated. 

I have played for a while with the demo of the components.
What I noticed is that components with popup elements, such as ComboBox, DatePicker, TimePicker, ... have a small but visible delay, which becomes quite annoying with time.

Look at ComboBox demo, it seems there is some delay due to pre-configured animation effects on the control.  In slower browsers (take Firefox 6.0.2) the delay is obvious. 
The support for animation in general is a cool idea, but in most business applications it is not welcome by users who use application on a daily basis. 

Personaly, looking at the demo I am not sure if I can rely on kendoUI if my application designed for "do the job" rather then "enjoy UI".

I think it would be very nice if the demo has settings to disable all animations, to run it at full speed and demonstrate rich AND really responsive UI.

It will be very nice if the AutoComplete, DropDownList, ComboBox, and MultiSelect components have the floating label functionality like the TextBox widget 

Right now other JS UI libraries allow the autocomplete dropdownlist to dynamically size based on the returned content. KendoUI sets the width to the width of the input box. I understand this looks nice but doesn't work for all business aspects. An example is my company needs to enter search criteria but the return results is the code and description. Since this can get longer than the input box the text is wrapped. This confuses users as they don't know where one item starts or ends. We use to modify the source files to fix this but the Q2 release changed a few things and stopped us from doing this.

Bug report

The DropDownList does not change its popup height when items added/removed from its source.

This is a regression introduced with 2023.1.314 release.

Reproduction of the problem

• Run the following Dojo: https://dojo.telerik.com/aCoHAZuK/4
• Add new item to the list
• Open the popup again - a vertical scroll will be present, while the popup should be resized to display all the three items

Expected/desired behavior

The popup height should change according to the new number of items.

Environment

• Kendo UI version: 2023.1.425
• Browser: [all]

Currently multiselect control has a change event only which is supposed to take care of add/remove event.
Please add proper events or pass info in the change event about what changed, so that developers doesn't have to write the same JS again and again.
See OnaBai's reply here

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16608565/kendo-multiselect-trigger-an-event-when-an-item-is-removed

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17653958/kendo-ui-multi-select-remove-selected-element-using-value

The autocomplete inorder to support search and at the bottome display all the results and the number of matched results,
there is need to footer template, like the facebook search autocomplete.

In order to check dirty tracking, I would like to check the defaultSelected of the option of the MultiSelectControl. This now does not work.

Currently, the AutoComplete widget supports only a single separator value. It would be desirable to be able to fire an autocomplete action after multiple separators, which can be suplied as an array in the separator property of the configuration object.

Bug report

When a DropDownList with filtering enabled is used inside a Kendo Window it gets unexpectedly closed when clicked between .k-input-inner and .k-input-value-text elements.

Reproduction of the problem

1. Open the Dojo
2. Open the first DropDownList
3. Then click the second DropDownList to open, but try to click between the red and the green border

Current behavior

The DropDownList is automatically closed

screencast

Expected/desired behavior

The DropDownList should remain opened when clicked

Environment

• Kendo UI version: 2022.2.621
• Browser: [all ]

Bug report

When remote data is loaded in the DropDownList and the loading icon appears while loading, the down arrow icon remains visible. Thus, both icons are overlapping.

Reproduction of the problem

1. Open the Dojo
   Note: if the data loads fast and the issue does not occur, open the browser developer tools in order to hit the debugger in the requestEnd event handler

Current behavior

Both - the loading indicator and the down arrow icon appear at the same time:

Expected/desired behavior

The down arrow icon should disappear while the loading indicator is displayed.

The issue is a regression starting with the 2023 R2 (2023.2.606) version

Environment

• Kendo UI version: 2023.3.1010
• Browser: [all]

Bug report

The Kendo UI DropDownList's OptionLabel has some padding before the OptionLabel which does not match corresponding items in list.

Reproduction of the problem

Please visit this Progress Kendo UI Dojo and open the Kendo UI DropDownList.

Current behavior

Expected/desired behavior

The OptionLabel should be matching the items below it.

Environment

• Kendo UI version: 2022.1.301
• jQuery version: Supported Versions
• Browser: all