SelectedItem property of dropdownlists...

[minn]

Hello,

Please can someone help!

I have a textbox and a dropdownlist. The text in the textbox also features as an item in my dropdownlist.

What i want to achieve is when i click a button, the dropdownlist loads with data but rather than dispay the first item in the dropdownlist at index 0, i wish for it to display the item that is equal to what is shown in the textbox.

I have tried the following:

ddlVendors.SelectedItem.Value = txtVend.Text

but this just displays the first item in the ddl and not the item in the textbox. I have also had a play around with selected index and selected value but no luck.

Any ideas anyone??

 

[ManicCW]

Have you tried:

[SIZE=2]ddlVendors.SelectedText= txtVend.Text[/SIZE]

 

[minn]

Yes,

it works but what it also does is, it creates two copies of the same item in the dropdownlist, which i dont want.

Do you know how to resolve this because at the moment this is the closest solution.

 

[jwh]

I cannot be sure cos it is a while since I worked on this problem, but I think I solved it by using a 'find item by value' or something like that on the list of values....


sorry i can't help more but it might be a nudge in the right direction.

 

[ScoobyChris]

Hi,

ddlVendors.SelectedIndex = ddlVendors.FindStringExact(txtVend.Text)

This should index the dropdownlist to the item in the textbox.

Hope this helps!