Default item at the top of a Drop Down List[Answered] RSS

• • Reply
  stabes

  Member

  47 Points

  214 Posts

  Default item at the top of a Drop Down List

  May 17, 2019 11:58 AM|stabes|LINK

  Hi all,
  
  I have this code in a page which pulls drop down list items from a Access mdb:

  <asp:DropDownList id="DropDownList1" runat="server" DataSourceID="AccessDataSource1" DataTextField="Category_1" DataValueField="Category_1" CssClass="TextBox">

  </asp:DropDownList>
  
  Is there anything I can add to this line (or anywhere else) which will appear as the default option at the top of the list eg "---Select---"?
  What's happening at the moment is that when the page loads, the first item from the drop down list in the mdb is being automatically used by the code above to return a whole bunch of records. 
  
  Mart

• • Reply
  jzero

  Participant

  1011 Points

  642 Posts

  Re: Default item at the top of a Drop Down List

  May 17, 2019 12:08 PM|jzero|LINK

  Set AppendDataBoundItens and add "Select" as ListItem

  <asp:DropDownList id="DropDownList1" runat="server" AppendDataBoundItems="True" DataSourceID="AccessDataSource1" DataTextField="Category_1" DataValueField="Category_1" CssClass="TextBox">
  <asp:ListItem>Select</asp:ListItem>
  </asp:DropDownList>

• • Reply
  stabes

  Member

  47 Points

  214 Posts

  Re: Default item at the top of a Drop Down List

  May 17, 2019 12:21 PM|stabes|LINK

  Aha! Thanks. :-)