Setting dropdownlist selecteditem programmatically
Well if I understood correctly your question. The Solution for setting the value for a given dropdownlist will be:
dropdownlist1.Text="Your Value";
This will work only if the value is existing in the data-source of the dropdownlist.
Assuming the list is already data bound you can simply set the SelectedValue
property on your dropdown list.
list.DataSource = GetListItems(); // <-- Get your data from somewhere.
list.DataValueField = "ValueProperty";
list.DataTextField = "TextProperty";
list.DataBind();
list.SelectedValue = myValue.ToString();
The value of the myValue
variable would need to exist in the property specified within the DataValueField
in your controls databinding.
UPDATE:
If the value of myValue
doesn't exist as a value with the dropdown list options it will default to select the first option in the dropdown list.
ddlData.SelectedIndex
will contain the int
value To select the specific value into DropDown
:
ddlData.SelectedIndex=ddlData.Items.IndexOf(ddlData.Items.FindByText("value"));
return
type of ddlData.Items.IndexOf(ddlData.Items.FindByText("value"));
is int
.
Here is the code I was looking for :
DDL.SelectedIndex = DDL.Items.IndexOf(DDL.Items.FindByText("PassedValue"));
Or
DDL.SelectedIndex = DDL.Items.IndexOf(DDL.Items.FindByValue("PassedValue"));