How Do I Send A Selected Value From A Dropdown List To A Label?

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For some reason i just cant get it to work:


            <asp:DropDownList ID="DDSortBy" runat="server"  CssClass="RightDD" OnSelectedIndexChanged="DDSortBy_SelectedIndexChanged">
                <asp:ListItem Value="0">Random</asp:ListItem>
                <asp:ListItem Value="1">Album</asp:ListItem>
                <asp:ListItem Value="2">Artist</asp:ListItem>
                <asp:ListItem Value="3">Price</asp:ListItem>
                <asp:ListItem Value="4">Top Rated</asp:ListItem>
                <asp:ListItem Value="5">Year</asp:ListItem>
            </asp:DropDownList>

i want to send the values "Random", "Album", etc to this label:

<asp:Label ID="lblSort" runat="server" Text=""></asp:Label>

Any Ideas?

Posted 29-Jul-14 8:19am

Zieyaad

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ZurdoDev 29-Jul-14 14:54pm

lblSort.Text=DDSoryBy.SelectedItem.Text won't work for you?

Zieyaad 29-Jul-14 15:03pm

i tried that, im probably sure that it does work BUT while im running my website, i want the value/text to be immediately passed as i select an option from the drop down list.

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Solution 1

Hi,

Use Jquery to get the selected value from dropdown and assign that to label text..

var selectedvaluefromddl = $("#DDSortBy option:selected").text();
$('#lblSort').text(selectedvaluefromddl );

Posted 29-Jul-14 8:44am

Dileep Ashok

Updated 29-Jul-14 8:46am

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AnvilRanger · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-29T09:38:00

Solution 2

If that is really your code you need to the set the autopostback property on the control

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.listcontrol.autopostback(v=vs.110).aspx[^]

Posted 29-Jul-14 9:38am

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Zieyaad 29-Jul-14 15:56pm

GREAT STUFF