Hello All,

   I am tring to use a conpare validator but having problems. I have a drop down list that is databound, the first value I add manually which is a blank, with a value of "". when the user wants to save the data, I want to be sure they do not pick the blank item. I set the control to the dropdownlist, operator to equals, and value to compare to "", I placed a blank by hitting the space bar. This does not work. What am I doing wrong, should I use another validator control???

Thanks..

Jim

Maybe you should try a value that won't interfere with legal values but not be blank. Sometimes I'll use -1 for an integer field that will always be positive.

Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.

Thanks. I acutally wound up using a required field validator, and that worked when the value was blank.

JIm