Getting the Value of a DropDownList

[John Smith]

I have a Repeater that is paginated, and I would like the user to
navigate to each page via a DropDownList. I have set the AutPostBack
attribute to true and written code that fires on the
OnSelectedIndexChange event. However, I am unable to retrieve the
value of the DropDownList after the PostBack. I have tried
dropdown.SelectedValue, dropdown.SelectedItem.Value, and
dropdown.SelectedIndex. None of these returns the page that was
selected pervious to the postback.

Can anyone shed light on this issue?
Thank you!

[Change Kalin]

Hi John,
There are 2 possible solutions to this:

1. Use the http referrer server variable to get the last page
2. Cast the control in the repeater as a DropDownList first, then try to get
the selected value information (similar to reading the value of a control in
the edit state of a datagrid).

HTH.
Ck
"John Smith" wrote:

I have a Repeater that is paginated, and I would like the user to
navigate to each page via a DropDownList. I have set the AutPostBack
attribute to true and written code that fires on the
OnSelectedIndexChange event. However, I am unable to retrieve the
value of the DropDownList after the PostBack. I have tried
dropdown.SelectedValue, dropdown.SelectedItem.Value, and
dropdown.SelectedIndex. None of these returns the page that was
selected pervious to the postback.

Can anyone shed light on this issue?
Thank you!