How to show India as the first country name and then others will be shown in dropdownlist

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Hi,

I have a column name is Country_nm in table like

China
India
USA
JAPAN

I want to show these country_nm in dropdownlist control but I want to show India as the name in dropdownlist and then others will be shown usin select query
like
India,
China,
Japan,
USA

Please help me...

Posted 4-Dec-12 19:23pm

Archana Parate

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choudhary.sumit 5-Dec-12 1:28am

insert india at 0 index of the dropdown. dont fetch it from database..

n_sriganesh 5-Dec-12 2:17am

Do you have any columnid or any other column associated with this column.for e.g
countryid country_nm
1 china
2 usa
etc etc

4 solutions

Solution 2

Add a sort column to your data source with India in position 0
or
Manually insert India to your list and then do all the other countries in your data source remembering no to process India twice.

Posted 4-Dec-12 20:47pm

Mycroft Holmes

Solution 1

Try this....

ASP.NET

<asp:listitem text="India" value="0" xmlns:asp="#unknown">
<asp:listitem text="Usa" value="1">
<asp:listitem text="china" value="2">
<asp:listitem text="japan" value="3">

or

in code behind

C#

ddl_country.items.insert(0,"India");

ddl_country.items.insert(1,"japan");

.......

HTML

</asp:listitem></asp:listitem></asp:listitem></asp:listitem>

Posted 4-Dec-12 20:08pm

akilkrv

Updated 4-Dec-12 21:28pm

v2

Solution 4

you can use selectedindex/selectedItem property of listbox/dropdown to set default selected value.

Posted 5-Dec-12 0:06am

Raman Thakur

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Archana Parate · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-05T00:01:00

Solution 3

select * from country_lst_tab
order by case when Country_nm='India' then 0 else 1 end, country_nm

Posted 5-Dec-12 0:01am

Archana Parate

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Archana Parate 29-Jan-13 5:44am

Thank You...