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c#asp.netdrop-down-menulistitem
Sebastian
Sebastian

Reputation: 45

DropdownList listitems in asp.net

I want to have "Please select" on top of my dropdownlist, but when I feed the list items from the database the "please select" option is not displaying.

<asp:DropDownList CssClass="form-control" ID="DropDownList3" runat="server"
    DataSourceID="SqlDataSource2"
    DataTextField="ROLENAME">
    <asp:ListItem Text="Please select"
        Value="" Disabled="disabled" Selected="True"></asp:ListItem>
</asp:DropDownList>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3772

Answers (2)

MTognin
MTognin

Reputation: 1

In .cs code, after DropDownList3.DataBind() insert a ListItem like this:

this.DropDownList3.Items.Insert(0, new ListItem() { Text = "Please select", Value = string.Empty });

Upvotes: 0

VDWWD
VDWWD

Reputation: 35564

Add AppendDataBoundItems="true" to the DropDownList.

<asp:DropDownList CssClass="form-control" ID="DropDownList3" runat="server"
    DataSourceID="SqlDataSource2" AppendDataBoundItems="true"
    DataTextField="ROLENAME">
    <asp:ListItem Text="Please select" Value="" Enabled="false" Selected="True"></asp:ListItem>
</asp:DropDownList>

And the correct syntax is Enabled="false", not Disabled="disabled". disabled=disabled is HTML code.

Upvotes: 2

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