how to retain the value of the html textbox control when server side dropdownlist changes??

[dayakar_dn]

hi friends, fine and hope u so... in my asp.net page i having one server side dropdownlist and html Control textbox.When i am selecting item from dropdownlist,the value in the textbox is cleared why beacuse i used autopostback "true" for dropdownlist item.i want to retain the value of the textbox when i am selecting different items in the dropdownlist... note : i set EnableViewState="true" inthe dropdownlist ...it is only working if i used runat="sever" in the textbox control... can u plz help me to solve this prob????.. i am looking forward to hearing from u... bye..

[Manas Bhardwaj]

dayakar_dn wrote:

note : i set EnableViewState="true" inthe dropdownlist ...it is only working if i used runat="sever" in the textbox control...

So, why don't you use it as a server side control?

dayakar_dn wrote:

can u plz help me to solve this prob????..

Another option is to store the value of the textbox somewhere and than again populate it after the postback.

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[sarala s]

hi Manas Bhardwaj, i tried as u said.... i got the value of html textbox in the code behind page with the help of the following code... Request.Params["ComapanyName"]; how to populated back this value to the html textbox without using runat="server"...

[Sandeep Akhare]

Use request object to get value of your html textbox and populates the control on every postbacks

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