Text Value of DropDown box

19 Apr 2006 11:19 AM

Bhaskar Reddy

Hi,

I have a drop down as below.

<select id="drp1">
<option value="1">One</option>
<option value="2">Two</option>
</select>

I need the text value of the drop down box.

Request.form("drp1").value is giving 1 , but I need the value "One". How can
I do this.

Please Help.

Thanks

19 Apr 2006 11:52 AM

Mike Brind

Bhaskar Reddy wrote:
Show quote

> Hi,
>
> I have a drop down as below.
>
> <select id="drp1">
> <option value="1">One</option>
> <option value="2">Two</option>
> </select>
>
>
> I need the text value of the drop down box.
>
> Request.form("drp1").value is giving 1 , but I need the value "One". How can
> I do this.
>
> Please Help.
>
> Thanks

You could do this:
<select id="drp1">
<option value="One">One</option>
<option value="Two">Two</option>
</select>

Or this:
<select id="drp1">
<option>One</option>
<option>Two</option>
</select>

--
Mike Brind

19 Apr 2006 12:07 PM

Bob Barrows [MVP]

Bhaskar Reddy wrote:
Show quote

> Hi,
>
> I have a drop down as below.
>
> <select id="drp1">
> <option value="1">One</option>
> <option value="2">Two</option>
> </select>
>
>
> I need the text value of the drop down box.
>
> Request.form("drp1").value is giving 1 , but I need the value "One".
> How can I do this.
>
> Please Help.
>

As you have seen, only the value property gets passed via the Request
object.

This is not the first time I've seen this question, and frankly, I'm a
little puzzled by it: aren't you in control of the source of those
value-text pairs? Why can't you simply retrieve the text from the data
source based on the passed value? I suppose you could be using some
client-side data source for the option list ... ?

Anyways, you have a few options:

Make the text be part of the value when populating the options:
<option value="1 - One">One
allowing you to use Split() to retrieve both values from
request.form("drp1")

Use client-side code to populate a hidden field when the form is submitted
(see a client-side group such as .scripting.jscript for this).

Store the value-text pairs in an xml document on the web server, either in a
file or in a session variable

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19 Apr 2006 9:37 PM

Dave Anderson

Bob Barrows [MVP] wrote:

> This is not the first time I've seen this question, and
> frankly, I'm a little puzzled by it: aren't you in control
> of the source of those value-text pairs? Why can't you
> simply retrieve the text from the data source based on the
> passed value?

Or simply: What is the point of a value that differs from the text if you
want the text?

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