dropdown problem with setting selected values

[segal.aviad]

Hi,

I'm trying to write a web page containing three dropdowns. The
dropdowns are declared as follows:

<asp:DropDownList id="cmbCat1" runat="server"
AutoPostBack="true"></asp:DropDownList>
<asp:DropDownList id="cmbCat2" runat="server"
AutoPostBack="True"></asp:DropDownList>
<asp:DropDownList id="cmbCat3" runat="server"
AutoPostBack="True"></asp:DropDownList>

When trying to set a selected value to each of them, the others are
influenced for some reason. Their selected value is set as well. This
is the code:

cmbCat1.SelectedValue = Session["cat1"].ToString();
cmbCat2.SelectedValue = Session["cat2"].ToString();
cmbCat3.SelectedValue = Session["cat3"].ToString();

Any ideas why this is happening and what I need to do to make them
independant?

Thanks!

[carion1]

Without more information my suggestion would be to take a look at where you
set those session variables. Make sure they aren't all being set to the
same value.

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Hi,

I'm trying to write a web page containing three dropdowns. The
dropdowns are declared as follows:

<asp:DropDownList id="cmbCat1" runat="server"
AutoPostBack="true"></asp:DropDownList>
<asp:DropDownList id="cmbCat2" runat="server"
AutoPostBack="True"></asp:DropDownList>
<asp:DropDownList id="cmbCat3" runat="server"
AutoPostBack="True"></asp:DropDownList>

When trying to set a selected value to each of them, the others are
influenced for some reason. Their selected value is set as well. This
is the code:

cmbCat1.SelectedValue = Session["cat1"].ToString();
cmbCat2.SelectedValue = Session["cat2"].ToString();
cmbCat3.SelectedValue = Session["cat3"].ToString();

Any ideas why this is happening and what I need to do to make them
independant?

Thanks!

[Steven Nagy]

I would also like to know where your combo's are getting populated
from. Are you data-binding them to a datatable in code behind?
If so, is it the same data table for all 3? If so, thats probably your
problem. Otherwise as carion suggested... your 3 session variables
might be the 1 object.

Steven Nagy

[segal.aviad]

Steven Nagy wrote:

I would also like to know where your combo's are getting populated
from. Are you data-binding them to a datatable in code behind?
If so, is it the same data table for all 3? If so, thats probably your
problem. Otherwise as carion suggested... your 3 session variables
might be the 1 object.

Steven Nagy

Hi,
I'm not databinding them, but I'm inserting Items in a loop. The items
I'm inserting are the same because these three combos should contain
the same data. So what I'm doing is creating a listitem and adding it
to all three combos. Do you think this might be the problem?

Thanx

[segal.aviad]

Hi,
Actually my first guess was that something was wrong w. the session
variables, so I tries setting the selected values to hard coded values,
but I got the same result...

Thanx

[Steven Nagy]

Almost definately.

The list item is a reference type, which means you are adding the same
object to all 3 lists.
Try creating an individual object for each one.

Steven Nagy

[segal.aviad]

That was it.

Thanks a lot!!!

[Steven Nagy]

No problems.

The same issue applies in Windows Applications as well.

Any other cases where you want to use 1 data table for 3 different
combos, you can either have 3 data tables OR 1 data table and 3 data
views.
This is not relevant for you of course, but I thought I would post it
anyway in case someone else was looking for a solution to something
similar and their searches took them here.

Steven Nagy