Watch out !!! a bug in DropDownList

[israeli]

Hi, I wanted to highlight a bug in the Web-Control DropDownList. If it contains two or more items with different names, but with the same values, then it returns the SelectedIndex of the first item in the items array with the common value rather then the index of the chosen item. Bye

[minhpc_bk]

Hi there, I don't think this is a bug. As you may already know that the dropdownlist control at the client side is the select html element, when you submit the page, the value (not the text) of the selected option item of the select element is posted to the server. And at the server side, the SelectedIndex property is set to the index of the item which is first found in the collection of the control based on the Value property, not the Text property. So if there are more than one item that have the same value, you'll see that the first item in the collection is selected.

[israeli]

I disagree with you this time. Indeed you describe the procedure that happens. But I thought that ASP.NET should be Object Oriented. As far as I understand by a straightforward thinking, the SelectedIndex property should be as it sounds like, the index of the selected item. Apparently, the items are being represented to the user by the text property, not the values properties. Bye