<commit_before>---
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# MultiColumnComboBox Overview

RadMultiColumnComboBox is a server-side WebForms wrapper over the MultiColumnComboBox for Kendo UI for jQuery. It operates on the client and provides functionality similar to a regular dropdown, but with highly simplified approach for creating columns in the dropdown.

![multicolumncombobox-overview](images/multicolumncombobox-overview.png)

## Key Features

* Renders and operates on the client-side

* Built-in accessibility, WAI-ARIA, keyboard and RTL support

* Ability to cascade from another MultiColumnComboBox

* Client templates for all components in the dropdown

* Built-in grouping of the data

* Virtualization

* Client or server filtering

* Integration with both client-side and server-side data sources

* Rich client-side API and events


# See Also

 * [Overview demo](http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/multicolumncombobox/overview/defaultcs.aspx)<commit_msg>docs(mccb): add likns to overview article<commit_after>---
title: Overview
page_title: RadMultiColumnComboBox Overview | UI for ASP.NET AJAX Documentation
description: Overview
slug: multicolumncombobox/overview
tags: overview
published: True
position: 0
---

# MultiColumnComboBox Overview

RadMultiColumnComboBox is similar to a regular dropdown, and offers a highly simplified approach for creating columns in the dropdown.

RadMultiColumnComboBox is available as of R1 2019 and it is a server-side WebForms wrapper over the MultiColumnComboBox for Kendo UI for jQuery widget.

>caption Figure 1: RadMultiColumnComboBox allows you to create such a complex layout with [under 20 lines of markup](http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/multicolumncombobox/overview/defaultcs.aspx).

![multicolumncombobox-overview](images/multicolumncombobox-overview.png)

## Key Features

* Renders and operates on the client-side

* Built-in accessibility, WAI-ARIA, keyboard and RTL support

* Ability to [cascade]({%slug multicolumncombobox/functionality/cascading%}) from another MultiColumnComboBox

* Client [templates]({%slug multicolumncombobox/functionality/templates%}) for all components in the dropdown

* Built-in [grouping]({%slug multicolumncombobox/functionality/grouping%}) of the data

* [Virtualization]({%slug multicolumncombobox/functionality/virtualization%})

* Client or server [filtering]({%slug multicolumncombobox/functionality/filtering%})

* Integration with both [client-side]({%slug multicolumncombobox/data-binding/client-side%}) and server-side data sources

* Rich [client-side API]({%slug multicolumncombobox/client-side-programming/overview%}) and [events]({%slug multicolumncombobox/client-side-programming/events%})


# See Also

 * [Overview demo](http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/multicolumncombobox/overview/defaultcs.aspx)
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