how to add an unselect item in dropdownlist

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I want to create a Dropdownlist in asp.net for cities of India.
i want to show cities statewise in single ddl where state name is an unselected item
with different background.
How could i do it.
Please send me the code.

Thanks in advance.

Posted 16-Aug-11 5:10am

Yogesh1229

Updated 16-Aug-11 9:03am

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Herman<T>.Instance 16-Aug-11 13:40pm

How many cities there are in India?
Isn't it better to have 2 dropdownlists? One for the statenames and one that shows the cityname per statename

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Elina Blank · Answer 1 · 2011-08-16T09:00:00

Solution 1

If you set the item, that you do not want to be selectable as "disabled" that should work.

Posted 16-Aug-11 9:00am

Elina Blank

Yogesh1229 · Answer 2 · 2011-09-04T21:04:00

Hi,i solved this problem.
first i fill the ddl by cities according to state using loop from xml.
then in the value field of items i fill the attribute id of state and cities.
Again i write a javascript function.
in this function by checking value of each option. if value is type state then the disabled="disabled";
It works.