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  a7Jymoz

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  Select Items in checkboxlist from cookie

  Apr 03, 2012 12:42 PM|LINK

  Hi all

  I have a checkboxlist that i am populating from a SQL command and when the items are selected they are added into a cookie.

  Im having a problem when trying to use the values in the cookie to select the right items when the page loads up. I got the bit of code below and it works fine until the part where i define the ListItem. This always comes up as null even though the values can be read from the cookie and items with that name are present in the list.

  Can anyone help?

  HttpCookie cookie = Request.Cookies["CheckBoxList1_SelectedItems"];
          if (cookie != null && cookie.Values != null)
          {
              foreach (string key in cookie.Values.Keys)
              {
                  ListItem item = CheckBoxList1.Items.FindByValue(key);
                  if (item != null)
                  {
                      item.Selected = true;
                  }
              }
          }

  
  
  

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  a7Jymoz

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  Re: Select Items in checkboxlist from cookie

  Apr 03, 2012 12:57 PM|LINK

  Nevermind, i've just found what was wrong. I needed to databind the checkboxlist so that the values actually appeared. Seems like it couldn't see them that early on in the load

  • Marked as answer by a7Jymoz on Apr 03, 2012 12:57 PM