Web Forms :: How To Create Cascading DropDown Lists
Jul 6, 2010
I don't want to link my dropdownlists with a database like most of tutorials and forums show. I just want to link 2 dropdownlists, for instance if one says "Food" I want to show only the food producs in the other DropDownList. All this items are not from a database, I just inserted them in the DropDownList control.
I have 3 dropdown lists. All 3 are using the same generic list for there items. I am using C# as the code behind. The code below shows the DTO list i am using and how I'm adding them to the drop downs...
my one table consists of fields (id, flying from, flying to). thus i have one drop down for flying from and another drop down for flying to. i'm hoping to cascade them so 2nd drop down values are dependant on the values from 1st drop down. is it possible to do this using a single table? or must i use two tables and link the id's from both? and do i write anyting in the SelectedIndexChange event? the sqldatasource code looks like this:Flying From:
I am using the AJAX Cascading drop down list but want to add event validation e.g. the compare validators.
As the cascading drop down list requires the page event validation to be disabled what is the best way to do the validation?
Validation Attempt: I have tried to use a custom validator which calls a Javascript function but it doesnt seem to be picking up the control. I get the following error Microsoft JScript runtime error: Object required
function ValidateCostCentCat(source, arguments) { var countryList = document.getElementById("ddlCategory"); if (null != countryList) { var iValue = countryList.options[countryList.selectedIndex].value; if (iValue == "Select Category") { arguments.IsValid = true; } else { arguments.IsValid = false; } } }
The mark-up for the custom validator is
<asp:CustomValidator ID="valcustCategory" runat="server" CssClass="error" Display="Dynamic" ValidationGroup="DirectHire" ClientValidationFunction="ValidateCostCentCat" ErrorMessage="Please select a Cost Centre Category from the drop down list provided.">!</asp:CustomValidator>
I am new to Ajax in general but I have a series of cascading drop down lists that are working fine. I'm using them on a form that I want to be able to either add a new row of data to the database or edit an existing one. I have the insert a new row working but editing an existing one is a bit trickier. The drop down lists are only part of the form but I would like to be able to query for a row id and set their values. Right now I'm querying for a row of data and populating the form with its values on page load and all of the fields work except for the drop down lists. I assume that this is because when the page is loading the web methods haven't run yet to populate the cascading drop downs. Therefore I can't set the selected value because there aren't any values yet. So therefore I'm pretty sure I need to do this from a web method so that it runs after the lists are populated or while the lists are populating but I don't know how.
i have two dropdown lists and i would like if i select lets say "1" the second list returns "A""B" but instead it returns "A" how to make the second list display A"B when i select "1" from the first list.
in all browers this works but in IE the dropdown list items in my modal pop up extender vanish when I make a selection. I even have a ddl in ajax panel and the same thing happens. it seems like a bug.
I want to know how to make up dropdown lists with numbers in them and and the end of the page as you selected the numbers they add themselfs up and you see a total at bottom the page
drop down list one 50
drop down list two 55
drop down list three 35
TOTAL IS _____140 _______
(and the end of the page when you select one number in each dropdown list) it adds it up for you and shows your total on the same page
How can I have 2 Cascading Drop Down Lists for the same Drop Down List?here is my problemi have 3 drop down lists read from database1- Schools List 2- Classes List3- Teachers ListEvery School will have more than 1 Class and more than 1 TeacherWhat I want is when user select a School from Schools Drop Down List then BOTH (Classes and Teachers) should be refreshed based on the School Drop Down List
i have over 100 items all loaded in a dropdown list. They all are assigned a value between 1-10 which represent 10 categories. When certain buttons are clicked, i want the dropdown list to display only items with a value "1" or "2", etc.
I have a number of dropdown lists which are populated from a database. They load depending on what the previous dropdown selection was so for example if the system was car based and I had chosen Ford then the next dropdown list would populate all cars made only by Ford. What I'm wanting to do is add a select all to one of the dropdown lists. Does anyone know how this would be done?
I have 2 drop downlists 1 gets the User hits my sql database and pulls back all my users in the database. I have post back on. The second drop down brings back all the account numbers for the user that is selected in the first drop downlist I have that post back on also.
My gridview then uses those 2 dropdownlists to populate for that user and that account number selected.
Now for the problem.
User Albert is in the drop down when page is loaded because its sorts by name the first account number for albert is in the 2nd drop down and the gridview works on page load for albert and account number 1 i can select account number 2 and the gridview changes.
I then switch user to Bill and it populates the 2nd drop down with Bill's account numbers however my gridview at this point is still showing alberts account information. I have to take drop down 2 and select another account say account 2 then my gridview displays bill's account 2 information i can then switch back to account 1 for bill and see that account information.
What do I need to do so that my gridview will populate when the first dropdown is changed to match the 2 new values?
I'm trying to create a page with multiple fields to be used as parameters for filtering a GridView. I'm using a combination of two asp:dropdown lists and two check boxes. When I select a value in one ddl, I want to clear the value in the other ddl. I was trying to use the event "onTextChanged" but that doesn't seem to fire off on the client side and I cannot seem to find any event for an asp:ddl or asp:checkbox or asp:radio button that fires off on the client side.
Are there events, like onClientClick for asp:button, that fire on the client side for these controls when a selected value is changed or when the user clicks on them? or do I need to use html controls instead?
How can i dynamically add textboxes and dropdown lists on a button click. I'll be showing 4 text boxes and 1 dropdown list initially with a link button ADD MORE, Then after clicking ADD MORE button i need to generate same 4 text boxes and dropdownlist exactly in the below row as in EXCEL sheet.
I'm having a SQL table with 4 textboxes and a drpdown list values as columns and i need to insert them into the database. i previously worked on the same requirement where i've collected multiple values frm a listbox control and looped all the selected items and comma seperated them and inserted them into table(here the case is different, there is only one row so it became simple and straight forward during insertion). Now i need to loop throguh all the 4 textbxes which user enters and need to insert those 4 textboxes values into DB under same columns.
I am using a dataset control and I have 5 dropdown lists in which their content depends on what item is selected in each dropdown list.
I know I can populate the lists with 5 different queries taking the variables from each list but I am thinking there must be a better way.
Is there a way to populate each list with one query that takes the distinct items from each column returned without looping through the entire recordset?
I have an self-referencing entity which maintains a list of like entities that are it's children. What I need to do is build a dropdown that lists all possible parents so when I add or edit a new entity of that type, I can select it's parent (or no parent). The problem lies in the sql. I simply don't know how to word it.
IList<ParentForumModel> parentForums = new List<ParentForumsModel>(); foreach (Forum forum in forumRepository.GetAll()) { // not sure how to handle this here because it isn't in the correct order. I need them to be grouped by parent and sorted by the sequence field. It also needs to be a flat dataset, not something uses IGroupedQueryable or some such. } ForumAddModel model = new ForumAddModel { ParentForums = parentForums, // other properties }
public IQueryable<Forum> GetAll() { return context.Forums.??? // what Linq do I need here? }
If this simply isn't possible with Linq2Sql, then is there a system where it is possible? Please don't say hnibernate.
I need to create 2 cascading dropdown menus for a website. I am really new to ASP so don't understand a lot of it yet.. now is that the website pulls the list items from a SQL database and I don't want to use this method. I need to use either JavaScript or just hard code the items. Here are the directions for what I need to do:
Drop down list box for selecting a state (populate it with names of five states)
my cascading dropdown boxes. Eveything works I just need to remove the duplicates from the States and Cities drop down box. Any idea how? I got it to work on the Country drop down but can't figure out the rest.
I have a dropdownlist and a gridview with a drop down list in every row. I have removed other cols in Grid for simplicity.
Whenever a new value in the dropdownlist is selected I would like to set all of the dropdownlists in the gridview to that same value via javascript. (Yea both the dropdownlist outside the gird and the ones inside the grid are populated by the same data source)
function onJDSelection() { var jd = document.getElementById('ctl00_MAIN_DropDownList3').Text; var grid = document.getElementById('ctl00_MAIN_GridView2'); for (var i = 1; i < grid.rows.length; i++) { grid.rows[i].cells[0].getElementsByTagName("*")[1].selectedText = jd; } }
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When clicking on the dropdown I get an alert that says "test" and an alert that says "[Object object]" However nothing happens with the dropdowns in the grid and the alert(i) never fires.
I am trying to bind data into a dropdown list from c#. I am getting a Null error when trying to enter the data into the DDL's. I am using this code for the front end.
and last but not least the function to setup the dynamic amount of DDL's looks like this
private void PreloadHardDriveRepeater(int intSupportedDrives) { int[] intArrDisks = new int[intSupportedDrives];[code]...
I am calling a list of populate functions in a !page.isPostBack if statement and the only one that is not getting the data is this one with the Drown Lists. It gets the number of Rows(18) from the database, but it it throwing a Null error(Object reference not set to an instance of an object.) I have seen quite a few people have been running into this error while googling the problem, however I could not find a solution that worked for me. The PreloadHardDriveRepeater function seems to work fine when run alone it loads the correct amount of DDL's onto the page.
I have a simple web form which has 3 dropdown lists making date of birth dd mmm yyyy. The form itself is inside an update panel. The 3 lists are populated once on page load, list 1 has 31 days, list 2, 12 months and list 3, 82 years. The strange behaviour affects list 1 - (days) and list 3 (years). When I select an item from the list which is outside the viewing window via the scrollbar (20 is outside 19 is the last in the list) and press the validate button the whole page flickers. The same behavious occurs in list 3. It doesn't occur in list 2 because the viewing windown is large enough for all 12 months. If I then select an item within the window, the flickering stops.
How do you get dropdown lists to refresh after a submit button has been clicked and the radgrid has been populated? Basically I have built a search tool which allows users to select the items from a dropdown list, click a button their results are displayed in a grid. However, currently it won't allow users to carry out a second search. It it a rebinding issue?