How to populate drop down list selected values in edit item template

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Hai,

I have a gridview.In the gridview there is a priority column.In the <edititemtemplate> of the priority I am using dropdown list.Suppose if i select edit button it is not showing the selected drop down values.Plz help me.

Thanks in advance.

Posted 2-Jan-14 19:43pm

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Solution 2

You need to set the EditIndex.
Have a look at this.
This might help u
Populate-DropDownList-with-Selected-Value-in-EditItemTemplate-of-GridView-in-ASPNet.aspx[^]

Posted 2-Jan-14 20:07pm

Naz_Firdouse

Updated 2-Jan-14 20:08pm

v2

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Karthik_Mahalingam 3-Jan-14 2:09am

5, good link..

Naz_Firdouse 3-Jan-14 2:12am

Thanks Karthik

Solution 1

add drop down list to edittemplate as following

C#

<asp:Gridview AutoGenerateColumns="false" ID="gv" OnRowEditing="Row_Edit" ...................>
<Columns>
 ------------------------
 ------------------------
 <asp:TemplateField>
  <ItemTemplate>
  // add label to show data
  </ItemTemplate>
  <EditTemplate>
    <asp:DropdownList ID="ddl" runat="server">
    <asp:ListItem Text="Select" Value="0" />
    </asp:DropdownList>
   </EditTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
</Columns>
</asp:Gridview>

Posted 2-Jan-14 19:54pm

Vinay Jade

Updated 2-Jan-14 19:56pm

v2

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Member 10234093 3-Jan-14 2:04am

I have already added drop down list in edititem template.If we click edit link button drop down is not displaying the selected value.

Vinay Jade 3-Jan-14 2:08am

in editrow event take out value from database which you want to bind to dropdownlist then use
ddl.Items.FindByText(retrived value from database).Selected=true;

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Chintan Desai1988 · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-02T21:51:00

Plz try below code it's really helping to you becz i already made it in my application....

code on .aspx page
---------------------------------------------

XML

<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Location">
                   <ItemTemplate>
                       <asp:Label ID="lbllocation" runat="server" Text='<%#Bind("location") %>'></asp:Label>
                   </ItemTemplate>
                   <EditItemTemplate>
                       <asp:Label ID="lblloc" runat="server" Text='<%#Bind("location") %>' Visible="false"></asp:Label>
                       <asp:DropDownList ID="drploc" runat="server">
                       </asp:DropDownList>
                   </EditItemTemplate>
               </asp:TemplateField>

----------------------------------------------

Code on .aspx.cs page
----------------------------------------------

C#

protected void GridView1_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
        {
            if ((e.Row.RowState & DataControlRowState.Edit) > 0)
            {
                //Code for binding dropdown on selected index of edit

                Label lblloc = (Label)e.Row.FindControl("lblloc");
                DropDownList drploc = (DropDownList)e.Row.FindControl("drploc");

                DataSet ds = new DataSet();
                ds = rb.Fill_Location();

                if (ds.Tables[0].Rows.Count != 0)
                {
                    drploc.DataSource = ds.Tables[0];
                    drploc.DataTextField = "location";
                    drploc.DataValueField = "location_id";
                    drploc.DataBind();
                }
                drploc.Items.FindByText(lblloc.Text).Selected = true;              
                            
            }
        }
    }