DropDownlist backwards

[Britney S Morales]

It look like beginner problem but i couldnt solve it dropdownlist with three members MEMBERS -- VALUES -- INDEX City 1 ---- a -------- 0 City 2 ---- b -------- 1 City 3 ---- c -------- 2 How i could obtain the index, if i know the value or the string Member?? :rose:

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[sundar156]

Hi For this you could use a for loop to check the index of the selected text. like private void DropDownList1_SelectedIndexChanged(.. , ..) { string val=DropDownList1.SelectedItem.Value ; int index=0; for(int i=0;i< DropDownList1.Items.Count;i++) { if(val == DropDownList1.Items[i].Value) index= i; } } I hope this solves the problem.

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[minhpc_bk]

Simply use DropDownList.SelectedIndex [^]

[minhpc_bk]

Basically, if you want to determine the index of a particular item, you can walk through the Items collection of the dropdownlist to the trick, and for the selected item you can simply use SelectedIndex property.