EnableViewState not being set to false

[Mike Drewery]

I want to post a form and not have the form maintain it's value. I am have tried setting EnableViewState = False at the control and on Page Load. When I submit the button my selection is returned. What am I missin

Mik
<asp:DropDownList id="DropDownList1" style="Z-INDEX: 101; LEFT: 115px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 163px" runat="server" Width="154px" Height="67px" EnableViewState="False"><asp:ListItem>Item 1</asp:ListItem><asp:ListItem>Item 2</asp:ListItem><asp:ListItem>Item 3</asp:ListItem><asp:ListItem>Item 4</asp:ListItem></asp:DropDownList>

[CT]

Is this your problem?
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;Q316813

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"Mike Drewery" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I want to post a form and not have the form maintain it's value. I am have
tried setting EnableViewState = False at the control and on Page Load.
When I submit the button my selection is returned. What am I missing
Mike

<asp:DropDownList id="DropDownList1" style="Z-INDEX: 101; LEFT: 115px;
POSITION: absolute; TOP: 163px" runat="server" Width="154px" Height="67px"
EnableViewState="False"><asp:ListItem>Item
1</asp:ListItem><asp:ListItem>Item 2</asp:ListItem><asp:ListItem>Item
3</asp:ListItem><asp:ListItem>Item 4</asp:ListItem></asp:DropDownList>

[Mike Drewery]

That's not it. I am not using the controls listed. I was using a listbox. If I don't set it to run at server then it works fine. Is this by design? I am new to dotnet and I am trying to get a handle on when to use what controls

Thanks for your reply

Mike

[Teemu Keiski]

Hi,

in fact it is, ListBox just isn't listed because it uses both 'worlds' in
fact. It stores all items to ViewState, but posts the selection along with
the form (despite do you have ViewState enabled or not).

To reset the selection, you need to set SelectedIndex manually to -1 or call
ClearSelection() method of ListBox.

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Teemu Keiski
MCP, Microsoft MVP (ASP.NET), AspInsiders member
ASP.NET Forum Moderator, AspAlliance Columnist
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"Mike Drewery" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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That's not it. I am not using the controls listed. I was using a listbox. If I don't set it to run at server then it works fine. Is this by
design? I am new to dotnet and I am trying to get a handle on when to use
what controls.
Thanks for your reply

Mike

[Mike Drewery]

This doesn't clear it

DropDownList1.ClearSelection(
DropDownList1.SelectedIndex = (-1

in page on load

Thank
Mike