Selecting value in dropdownlist:
Dropdownlist.SelectedItem.Text
= “two”;
To
Select value in dropdownlist don’t use the above code snippet it will overwrite
the existing item.
This
is not good coding practice. Instead use Inbuilt function following
Consider
dropdown binded by following value field and text field.
Valuefield Textfield
1 One
2 two
3 three
4 four
If u
want “two” as selected text following is the way.
(i)
Using textfield :
If(DropDownList.Items.FindByValue("two")
!= null)
{
Dropdownlist.Items.FindByText
(“two”).selected = true.
}
ii) Using
valuefield:
If(DropDownList.Items.FindByValue("two")
!= null)
{
Dropdownlist.
Items.FindByValue (“2”).selected = true.
}