dropdownlist

[Sakana]

Hi,

Im thinking of trying to display the information (one of the DOB year e.g: 1988) from the database into the dropdownlist and wish to display all the DOB year details for the user to update it. Can this be done?

E.g: Date Of birth year: from 1960 - 1990 where the user date of birth year is 1988. I want it to capture the year 1988 from the database can be displayed and also other DOB year from 1960 - 1990. I hope you guys can understand what i mean. Hope to have an idea of how to go about doing it and would really appreciate if samples were given. Thank you in advance.

[Fishcake]

I think i get what you mean. Sorry i haven't checked this.

Dim i As Short
        For i = 1960 To 1990
            cboDOB.Items.Add(i)
        Next
 
        'strDOB is the DOB from the database
        cboDOB.Items.FindByText(strDOB).Selected = True

That should give you a dropdownlist containing 1960 - 1990 with the date stored in strDOB (1988 in this case) selected.

[Sakana]

thank you fishcake!

I manage to do it by retrieving numbers. But i can't do it by using string or words.

codes i use by using numbers:

Dim dgItem As DataGridItem
For Each dgItem In dgSlotDate.Items
Dim i As Short
For i = 1 To 7
CType(dgItem.FindControl("ddlDay"), DropDownList).Items.Add(i)
Next

Dim strDay = Session("Search")

'strDay is the SlotDateID from the database
CType(dgItem.FindControl("ddlDay"), DropDownList).Items.FindByText(strDay).Selected = True