case problem

[netnatter]

I am getting a value from a textbox and checking its in a dropdown list then
displaying it with taht position in the list selected

All is well but it is case sensitve.

Is there a work round to make it ignore case? ie if category="Front porch"
and the user typed Front Porch or front porch

e.g. DropDownList1.SelectedValue =
DropDownList1.Items.FindByText(category).Value

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

"netnatter" <ne*******@ntlworld.comwrote in message
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>I am getting a value from a textbox and checking its in a dropdown list
then displaying it with taht position in the list selected

All is well but it is case sensitve.

Is there a work round to make it ignore case?

GIYF:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourc...Text+sensitive

The first hit (http://forums.asp.net/t/1269942.aspx) in the above search
looks pretty useful...
--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

[Eliyahu Goldin]

foreach (ListItem li in DropDownList1.Items)
{
if (li.Text.ToUpper() == category.ToUpper())
{
li.Selected = true;
break;
}
}
--
Eliyahu Goldin,
Software Developer
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]
http://msmvps.com/blogs/egoldin
http://usableasp.net
"netnatter" <ne*******@ntlworld.comwrote in message
news:rJ*********************@newsfe15.ams2...

>I am getting a value from a textbox and checking its in a dropdown list
then displaying it with taht position in the list selected

All is well but it is case sensitve.

Is there a work round to make it ignore case? ie if category="Front porch"
and the user typed Front Porch or front porch

e.g. DropDownList1.SelectedValue =
DropDownList1.Items.FindByText(category).Value