I have a dropdown list in a datagrid column.  The data to populate the list comes from a table.  When the user clicks "add" to add a new row, I want no entries in the dropdown list initially selected.  If the user saves without selecting from the dropdown list, I want "none" saved instead of what is happening now --- the first entry is saved.  

Thanks for any help!

[Edited by Anita on 06-03-2006 at 06:49 PM GMT]

helloo..

i know this is an ingenius solution...   ..

maybe you can try this.. before you populate your list with data from your db put "none" first and after that put all the data you get from your db..


    


andrew

If you are binding the Drop Down, you probably want to add the extra item AFTER you bind. Setting its index to 0 (zero) should make it first in the list, and, by default, selected.

something like...

'do your binding here... DropDown1.DataBind 'then... Dim theItem As New ListItem theItem.Value = "none" theItem.Text = "" DropDown1.Items.Insert(0, theItem)

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Thank you for your help.  Adding the item AFTER binding was the answer I needed.