Make a value the default in a databound dropdown

[Steve]

I have a databound dropdown in my page. I want to make one of the
values the default value. Any ideas?

Just to explain further, I have also appended one item to the dropdown,
using the AppendDataBoundItems="True" property of the dropdown.
Unfortunately the item I have appended to the dropdown has become the
default value of the dropdown list which is not what I want.

Kind regards,

Steve.

 

[Karl Seguin [MVP]]

myDropDown.SelectedIndex =
myDropDown.Items.IndexOf(myDropDown.Items.FindByValue("yourDefaultValue"))

you can also use FindByText which uses the text, instead of the value.

Karl

 

[Steve]

Thank you for this Karl.

Should I put this code in the page load event in page behind or can I
somehow put it as a parameter in between the dropdown tags in the page
itself.

Kind regads,

Steve

 

[Karl Seguin [MVP]]

I'm pretty sure you're stuck doing it in codebehind.

Karl