avoiding postback

[NH]

Hi,

I have two dropdown lists in a web form. When you choose an entry in the
first list the code retrieves records from the database and displays them in
the second dropdownlist.

Is there a way of avoiding a postback with this by maybe retrieving all the
data at the start and then filtering what should be displayed on the second
dropdown list on the client side?

Thanks
N

[Brock Allen]

Sure this can be done, but it requires lots of javascript that you'd need
to write. The model with ASP.NET is a server side model, so most anything
that is dynamic and needs code to execute will go back to the server. If
this is not desired then, like I mentioned above, you'll need to build that
infrastructure yourself.

-Brock
DevelopMentor
http://staff.develop.com/ballen

Hi,

I have two dropdown lists in a web form. When you choose an entry in
the first list the code retrieves records from the database and
displays them in the second dropdownlist.

Is there a way of avoiding a postback with this by maybe retrieving
all the data at the start and then filtering what should be displayed
on the second dropdown list on the client side?

Thanks
N

[NH]

Thanks, thats pretty much what I thought. It would be nice if Microsoft had
some friendly client side code which would work easily with asp.net, I know
that certain things can be done but its just rather overly complicated.

"Brock Allen" wrote:

Sure this can be done, but it requires lots of javascript that you'd need
to write. The model with ASP.NET is a server side model, so most anything
that is dynamic and needs code to execute will go back to the server. If
this is not desired then, like I mentioned above, you'll need to build that
infrastructure yourself.

-Brock
DevelopMentor
http://staff.develop.com/ballen

Hi,

I have two dropdown lists in a web form. When you choose an entry in
the first list the code retrieves records from the database and
displays them in the second dropdownlist.

Is there a way of avoiding a postback with this by maybe retrieving
all the data at the start and then filtering what should be displayed
on the second dropdown list on the client side?

Thanks
N