Bhaskar Reddy wrote:
Hi,
I have a drop down as below.
<select id="drp1">
<option value="1">One</option>
<option value="2">Two</option>
</select>
I need the text value of the drop down box.
Request.form("drp1").value is giving 1 , but I need the value "One".
How can I do this.
Please Help.
As you have seen, only the value property gets passed via the Request
object.
This is not the first time I've seen this question, and frankly, I'm a
little puzzled by it: aren't you in control of the source of those
value-text pairs? Why can't you simply retrieve the text from the data
source based on the passed value? I suppose you could be using some
client-side data source for the option list ... ?
Anyways, you have a few options:
Make the text be part of the value when populating the options:
<option value="1 - One">One
allowing you to use Split() to retrieve both values from
request.form("drp1")
Use client-side code to populate a hidden field when the form is submitted
(see a client-side group such as .scripting.jscript for this).
Store the value-text pairs in an xml document on the web server, either in a
file or in a session variable
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