How to set drop down list order?

Question

Hi All I have a country drop down list the listitems are from database. At code behind I had added --Select Country-- as default item by using: ddlCountry.Item.Add(0 --Select Country--); after binding. Now if I want to set United Stated as 2nd item and the other countries still will be in alphabetical order. How can achive this task? Thank you in advance. Any comment will be highly appreciated. ellen

Arshad · Answer

Hi use the below code it will solve your problem. ddlCountry.Items.Insert(0 new ListItem ( Select )); ListItem lst; lst = ddlCountry.Items.FindByText( USA ); ddlCountry.Items.Remove(lst); ddlCountry.Items.Insert(2 lst); First we have to remove that item from the lst and then add. it will work. Regards Arshad.

Arshad · Answer

Hi There Please use the below code its tested code it will solve your problem. ddlCountry.Items.Insert(0 new ListItem ( Select )); ListItem lst; lst = ddlCountry.Items.FindByText( USA ); ddlCountry.Items.Insert(2 lst); Regards Arshad

Ellen Hu · Answer

Thank you! Perfect. Really appreciate your time. ellen

Ellen Hu · Answer

Thank you!!! Really helps. But now on this drop down will have 2 USA. How can I keep only 1 ? Thank you again for your help. ellen

rasagna ramireddy · Answer

Hi I am correct  United States and all are from Database and you want to bind that data to dropdownlist with select as default value!!!!!! then Instead of setting default item in code behindjust set it in source it self so that it will serve your problem as well limits the load on code see the sample below asp : DropDownList ID =DropDownList1 runat =server> asp : ListItem > --select-- asp : ListItem > asp : DropDownList > div > hope this helps:) Thanks Rasagna