How to clear the text in .NET MAUI Autocomplete (SfAutocomplete)?

This article demonstrates how to clear the text in the .NET MAUI Autocomplete (SfAutocomplete). To achieve this, you can set the SelectedItem property of the Autocomplete to null by handling the Button’s Clicked event.

XAML

<VerticalStackLayout Margin="10,0" Spacing="5">
    <Label Text="Choose Country Name" FontAttributes="Bold" FontSize="16"/>
    <editors:SfAutocomplete x:Name="autocomplete">
        <editors:SfAutocomplete.ItemsSource>
            <x:Array Type="{x:Type x:String}">
                <x:String>United States</x:String>
                <x:String>India</x:String>
                <x:String>France</x:String>
                <x:String>Italy</x:String>
                <x:String>Germany</x:String>
                <x:String>China</x:String>
            </x:Array>
        </editors:SfAutocomplete.ItemsSource>
    </editors:SfAutocomplete>
    <Button Text="Clear text" HorizontalOptions="Center" Clicked="OnButtonClicked"/>
</VerticalStackLayout>

C#

private void OnButtonClicked(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    autocomplete.SelectedItem = null;
}

Output

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning how to clear the text in the .NET MAUI Autocomplete (SfAutocomplete).

You can refer to our .NET MAUI AutoComplete’s feature tour page to learn about its other groundbreaking features. You can explore our .NET MAUI Autocomplete documentation to understand how to present and manipulate data.

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