DropDownList

chiraagb · June 10th, 2004, 06:04 AM

Is there any way to capture the text which the user has selected from a dropdown field box? i.e.

dropdownlist.selecteditem.text (something like this)

om_prakash · June 10th, 2004, 07:28 AM

I think the answer is inur question if i am right..

dropdownlist.selecteditem.text

Om Prakash

X-Ken · June 10th, 2004, 10:13 AM

its dlist.selectedvalue

bmains · June 10th, 2004, 11:25 AM

Hello,

Do you want the text or the underlying value? For text, it's dropdownlist.selecteditem.text, and for the underlying value, it's dropdownlist.selectedvalue, as shown in the above posts.

Brian

chiraagb · June 14th, 2004, 11:28 PM

Hi,

Thanks for the replies.

I want the the text to be supplied to me. I will match this text with the value in my database and then want to create a session variable storing this value accordingly. I am using the following code.

Code:

if portalList.SelectedItem.text = objDataReader.GetString(0) then
            Session("course_id") = objDataReader.GetInt32(1).toString()
        end if

However, this is not working as when i response.write my course_id variable then I always get "1" as my output value where I am changing my dropdown list values so I think something is wrong, I don't know what thought but my SQL statement is fine.

Any suggestions here.

chiraagb · June 15th, 2004, 03:12 AM

Solved it.

Didnt use page.ispostback on page_load

also autopostback property should be set to true in the <asp:dropdownlist

Hope this helps someone else with similar probs :)