1 dropdown among many won't hold it's state... why?

[vtxr1300]

I've got a really big page with a few different panels and controls on
each panel. On panel 1 are many dropdownlists. The one list will not
hold state but the others do. I've checked everything I can think of.
I'm not rebinding data to the ddlist or changing the selectedindex at
anytime during postback. I only bind data to it upon the page's first
load. I've set enableviewstate=true which since the rest of the page
is holding state, I figured it should be that way anyway, but nothing.
Anyone know what else I can look at? This is VS2005 if that makes a
difference. Thanks.

[Eliyahu Goldin]

By any chance, you don't share the same item list between multiple ddls, do
you?

Eliyahu

"vtxr1300" <ca********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I've got a really big page with a few different panels and controls on
each panel. On panel 1 are many dropdownlists. The one list will not
hold state but the others do. I've checked everything I can think of.
I'm not rebinding data to the ddlist or changing the selectedindex at
anytime during postback. I only bind data to it upon the page's first
load. I've set enableviewstate=true which since the rest of the page
is holding state, I figured it should be that way anyway, but nothing.
Anyone know what else I can look at? This is VS2005 if that makes a
difference. Thanks.

[vtxr1300]

No I'm not doing that. In fact, I've tried it without binding anything
to the list and hard coding the list items in the html, but still no
dice.

[vtxr1300]

Okay, I finally figured out why it's not holding state, but I'm not
sure what to do to fix it. Basically my list has a 5 items. At this
point, each item has the same value, just a different text value. I
changed it so that each listitems value is different and now it holds
the state. So, since each listitem's value=11, it just selects the
first item with the value 11 in the list. Shouldn't it select it based
off of selectedIndex and not selectedValue?

[Eliyahu Goldin]

As a workaround you can handle a client side event raised on the ddl
selected item change. In the event you can save the selected item index in a
hidden input control and pass it on to the server side.

Eliyahu

"vtxr1300" <ca********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Okay, I finally figured out why it's not holding state, but I'm not
sure what to do to fix it. Basically my list has a 5 items. At this
point, each item has the same value, just a different text value. I
changed it so that each listitems value is different and now it holds
the state. So, since each listitem's value=11, it just selects the
first item with the value 11 in the list. Shouldn't it select it based
off of selectedIndex and not selectedValue?