changing the text of one value in a drop-down list

[darrel]

I'm binding data to a drop down list. Then, via another query, selecting one
of the items from that list by default.

What I'd like to do is change the text of that particular item as well. Can
that be done?

For instance, the list may be:

apple
orange
banana

then, I make the second query, find out this record should be set to orange,
and then I want to change the text as such:

apple
orange*
banana

to indicate what the current value is (so if someone selects it, but wants
to set it back to the 'last state' they can easily see which one it is.)

-Darrel

[darrel]

> I'm binding data to a drop down list. Then, via another query, selecting
one

of the items from that list by default.

What I'd like to do is change the text of that particular item as well. Can that be done?

Well, figured it out just after I posted!

DDL_bondingCo.S electedValue = ds.Tables(0).ro ws(0)("bondingI D").tostring

DDL_bondingCo.I tems.FindByValu e(ds.Tables(0). rows(0)("bondin gID").tostring) .
Text =

DDL_bondingCo.S electedItem.Tex t.tostring & "*"

-Darrel