Tuesday 21 February 2012

How to add a static item to a databound dropdownlist

In this post i will show how to add static item to dropdownlist like a dropdown that displays one static item such as "select" while the rest of the items are data bound, then check out the code below: 


Set the AppendDataBoundItems property of the dropdownlist to True, and add in the static list item. Your dropdown will look something like this:


 <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlCountry" runat="server" AppendDataBoundItems="true">
            <asp:ListItem Text="Select" Value="-1"></asp:ListItem>
        </asp:DropDownList>

check out the complete code
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default2.aspx.cs" Inherits="Default2" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlCountry" runat="server" AppendDataBoundItems="true">
            <asp:ListItem Text="Select" Value="-1"></asp:ListItem>
        </asp:DropDownList>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

public partial class Default2 : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (!IsPostBack)
        {
            ddlCountry.DataSource = new Country().Get();
            ddlCountry.DataTextField = "CountryName";
            ddlCountry.DataValueField = "ID";
            ddlCountry.DataBind();
        }
    }
    public class Country
    {
        public int ID { get; set; }
        public string CountryName { get; set; }

        public List<Country> Get()
        {

            List<Country> list = new List<Country>()
            {
                new Country(){ID=1,CountryName="India"},
                new Country(){ID=2,CountryName="USA"},
                new Country(){ID=3,CountryName="UK"},
                new Country(){ID=4,CountryName="Denmark"}

            };
            return list;
        }
    }

}

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