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drop down list in MVC

Hello All, I am absolutely new to the MVC application.I want a dropdown list on my form I have done it this way "<%= Html.DropDownList("Categories", (IEnumerable<SelectListItem>)ViewData["Categories"])%>" I am sending the viewdata[Categories] from the controller class file. this way IList allCategories = _dropdownProvider.GetAllCate...

Non framework implementation of a hierarchical drop down for Firefox.

I need a hierarchical drop down <select><option/></select> for use within a browser, preferably Firefox. I'd rather not use a framework like jQuery. Please spare me the questions as to why. ...

Changing styling of DataGridViewComboBoxCell from DropDownList to DropDown?

(This question is narrower in scope than this question I asked earlier.) Say I have a DataGridViewComboBoxColumn, and want to switch the style of the ComboBox control between DropDownList and DropDown (mainly for the text field editing capability). I'd like to do this on a row-by-row basis (at the DataGridViewComboBoxCell level). How ...

Problem: no headerValue when list is empty <s:select>

i am using struts 2 i have a tag <s:select list="list" headerKey="All" headerValue="All" multiple="true" name="selectedList" listKey="id" multiple="false" theme="simple" listValue="Name" size="20"> </s:select> When the List is empty it shows the "ALL" in the drop down, i dont want the headerValue to come in drop down when ...

Javascript textbox autocomplete clears drop down selection

Morning folks. Novice Rich here once again requesting assistance. I have just started dabbling with javascript and although I have set up a few onclick/change for setting the focus of radio buttons,that's pretty much my limit. In my c# code behind, I would like to have an 'onchange' function whereby once a client starts to type in my ...

dynamically populate dropdownlist

hey.. i m using following code to populate dropdownlist dynamically... i want that value should be the subject id and text should be the sub_desc...but code is not working the value does not contain the sub_ids...so whats wrong with the code?? (sub_id is integer field) public void Populate() { string ConnectionSt...

PHP Multiple Dropdown Box Form Submit To MySQL with OR

Hello, This question is similar to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/944158/php-multiple-dropdown-box-form-submit-to-mysql, but with a twist. Let's assume we have an HTML multi-select, which gets submitted to a PHP backend. How do you elegantly create a mysql request with an OR condition on the values of a multi-select? For instance...

how will I call the on change event of the ajax dropdownlist?

Hello All, In my MVC application I am using an ajax dropdownlist and an ajax Cascading dropdownlist I want to write the onChange event of the cascading dropdownlist please tell me what shall I do. I am posting the view page that I am using and the js file that creates the cascading dropdownlist.Please tell me where all the places I nee...

Add item to databound DropDownList

Hi, I have dropdownlist control where item lists are coming from database <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList1" runat="server" AutoPostBack="True" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource2" DataTextField="semester" DataValueField="semester"> </asp:DropDownList> But I want to add at the beginning 1 list item more "ALL" .. H...

Ajax Control to filter data in a DropDownList

Hello everyone. I'm making a web application using ASP and AJAX, and I have a DropDownList with some data. I've used a ListSearchExtender to filter data, and it searchs for the first data with the word contained. But what I want is not to go to the first occurence of the data but to really filter the data, I mean, if I have this data in...

PHP - Drop down list to display .txt contents

I have a form that has a drop down list of song titles. I want to be able to click on one of the song titles and the lyrics be loaded on the same page. The lyrics are contained within .txt files in a folder called "Lyrics". Example: Drop down list contains: Song1 Song2 Song3 etc. When the user clicks on the song, the contents of th...

In Sharepoint I want to display a message when an item is selected from the dropdown list and hide when it is clicked again.

I am new to sharepoint. I have a dropdown box with 5 items in it. When I select anyone of them from the dropdown box, I wanted to display a short discription of that selected item below. And when i click on it again the discription must hide or when i select another item from the dropdown box a discription of that message should be dis...

ASP.NET MVC: putting custom attributes into option tag in select list

I'm using ASP.NET MVC, and am trying to render a select list with the HtmlHelper.DropDownListFor method, like so: <%= Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.AllTopics, SelectListHelper.GetSelectListItems(Model.AllTopics), "Select a Topic", new { id = "allTopics", @class = "topic-dropdown" })%> where SelectListHelper just returns an IList<SelectL...

creating a dropdown with customized options

Situation: There is a page with 2 dropdowns. On clicking the first drop down, you get a list of companies. After selecting a company, the second dropdown, labelled Comapany's Project, should automatically customise its list to the list of projects associated with the selected company. How can the second drop down be achieved? ...

How do I data bind a drop down list in a gridview from a database table using VB?

So in this gridview, there is a column for status and I want to have a drop down list with Pass, Pending, Fail appear when the edit button is clicked. These values are already in a table, so I need to somehow bind from this table to each ddl for every row. Here is the column from the gridview. As you can see, I would like to just have a...

LINQ Union with Constant Values

Hi; Very primitive question but I am stuck (I guess being newbie). I have a function which is supposed to send me the list of companies : ALSO, I want the caller to be able to specify a top element for the drop-down list as well.. (say for "None"). I have following piece of code, how I will append the Top Element with the returning Sele...

Getting DropDownList values in a repeater

There is a following mark-up code: ASPX Page <asp:Repeater ID="GeneralRepeater" runat="server" OnItemDataBound="GeneralRepeater_OnItemDataBound"> <ItemTemplate> <tr> <td> Place: <asp:DropDownList ID="GeneralDDL" DataTextField="Text" DataValueField="Arena" runat="server" /> </td> ...

IE 6 dropdown selection area too narrow

Hi, I have a dropdown menu with the width set to 142px however the selection area when you drop down the menu needs to be larger as it has text that exceeds this width. Firefox (and most modern browsers) is clever and extends the selection area to fit in this text. However IE 6 and unchecked newer versions of IE do not show this text a...

DropDownList has a SelectedValue which is invalid because it does not exist in the list of items.

Here's the scenario: The selections in DropDownList are bound from a DB Table listing the acceptable values. At one point in time the values were: One Two Three Four At some point later, the list of acceptable values change to: One Two Four Five However, the field in the DB that stores the dropdown's value still contains a value of ...

asp.net dropdownlist - C#.NET and javascript

I have a drop down and a div right next to it. The text contained inside the div should be updated based on value selected in the dropdown. I do NOT want to use AutoPostBack feature. ...