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I have 10 listboxes in my aspx page. For all 10 listboxes same function is used. For some buttons I want to add listbox data to grid. Can you help me? My javascript code is shown below:
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<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" >
    function MoveItem(ctrlSource, ctrlTarget) {
       var Source = document.getElementById(ctrlSource);
       var Target = document.getElementById(ctrlTarget);

       if ((Source != null) && (Target != null)) {
           while ( Source.options.selectedIndex >= 0 ) {
               var newOption = new Option(); // Create a new instance of ListItem
               newOption.text = Source.options[Source.options.selectedIndex].text;
               newOption.value = Source.options[Source.options.selectedIndex].value;

               Target.options[Target.length] = newOption; //Append the item in Target
               Source.remove(Source.options.selectedIndex);  //Remove the item from Source
           }
       }
}

I tried the above code to move items between listbox using html input button. The problem is that when I am trying to save listbox.items.count is giving 0. Can anyone tell me why this is happening? And also, when post back occurs, the listbox items are lost.
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Updated 6-Jan-11 1:26am
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Remember that the client (browser) and server are disconnected. The server has no idea what has happened on the client unless you tell it. When the page is rendered the listboxes are bound to some data, which is added to page's viewstate, that's how ASP.NET maintains state across requests. Adding or removing items directly from/to the DOM on the client side does not update the viewstate so the server knows nothing about those actions.
 
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