In the properties of the drop down list control, set the AppendDataBoundItems to true. Then, in the Items Collection, add the item "Please Select". Finally, bind the list as you are now. The control will first insert any items that are in the "Items Collection", then it will (as the property states) append the data bound items to the control.

Steve

To figure out what's going on, open your page in the browser, then select "view source" (from the brower menu). Look at the html code and your javascript function. Is there a DOM element with the ID your javascript is attempting to hide/show? This should give you an indication of where the problem is.

Steve

Sounds like a "cross site scripting" problem, which is not allowed. See this article. It has information about this, including iframe usage. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/scripting/Cross_site_scripting.aspx[^]

Steve

Possibly enableviewstate flag needs to be set to true. You are using a standard html input item, rather than a dotnet control. This is ok since you set the runat server attribute. You may also want to set the enableviewstate="true" attribute as well. Not sure if this solves it, but worth a try. An alternative would be to use an 'asp:label' tag and set it's visibility to false. This gives you a fully qualified dotnet control, yet is not displayed to the user.

Steve