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I have read the following article

www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/073101-1.shtml. I added the empty

selection as the first option. When I click submit without choosing

anything it does not return my empty string but the 2nd value in listbox.

When the page reloads it selects the 2nd option by default even thou my

Empty field is in the list. What do I have to do to get the empty field and

databound data to act as one?


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In your Page Load - around the BindData section - put an if/then/postback

block:

if not Page.IsPostback then

BindData

end if



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"Harold" <reply@togroup.com>wrote in message



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Harold wrote:



After you insert the first item, you could do:

dropDownList.Items[0].Selected = true;



thus ensuring the first item is the selected item.

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Scott

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I have the if statement and it still gives me the same results. When I

debug the code ddlcatcode.Items(0).text = "" when the page loads. When I

press the search button I get ddlcatcode.Items(0).text = "13120" and I

should get ddlcatcode.Items(0).text = "" because I didn't choose anything

from that listbox. When the form is posted back it seems to loose the

dynamic listitem I added.





"David Wier" <dwier@nospamASPNet101.com>wrote in message



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I am now doing this and it seems to be working. Not sure if this is how it

should be done or not.



If Not Page.IsPostBack Then



GetData(strSQL)



Else



ddlCatCode.Items.Insert(0, New ListItem("", ""))



End If



Private Sub Page_PreRenderComplete(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As

System.EventArgs) Handles Me.PreRenderComplete



'Add an empty row to catcode dropdownlist



If Not Page.IsPostBack Then



ddlCatCode.Items.Insert(0, New ListItem("", ""))



End If



End Sub











"Harold" <reply@togroup.com>wrote in message



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