How do you get the id for the underlying record in a combobox with dojo? I've tried altering the following sample but all I can get is the text shown to the user (the "name" property of each array element), and NOT the state's two-letter abbreviation ("id" property).
http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.10/dijit/form/ComboBox.html#id3
thanks. PS, I'm a total noob with dojo. This is my first experiment with it.
It's like @CodeCrisis said, you can get the item by using dijit.byId('stateSelect').item. Though I'm not really pleased with how outdated the docs are (the dijit.byId()command is deprecated), this is a proper 1.10 solution:
query("button").on('click', function() {
console.log(comboBox.get('item'));
});
This will return the selected record in the store (containing both the id and name properties in this case).
A full, working example can be found here: http://jsfiddle.net/zt6xggL8/
How about this...
base on the link given
http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.10/dijit/form/ComboBox.html#id3
change this onclick function
onClick="alert(dijit.byId('stateSelect').get('value'))"
into
onClick="alert(dijit.byId('stateSelect').item.id)"
i know this is not the best answer but i hope this will help you..
check out the answer of Philippe
Dojo : ComboBox selected and show data id
hehehe... :) just passing by...
Not the prettiest but this works. Basically need to query the 'store' variable for the name that is being displayed when you just use 'value'. [0] denotes the first object in the store list, so if you have multiples with the same name, you'll need to use the foreach() function.
<button onClick="var namevar=dijit.byId('stateSelect').get('value');
alert(dijit.byId('stateSelect').get('store').query({name:namevar})[0].id);">
Get value
</button>
