Question

HELLO

i have one dropdown box and one listbox ,

my dropdown box values is

1-ALL
2-CUSTOM

my listbox values is retrieved from sql database

• email addresses

what i want to do is if i select ALL from the dropdown box , it will disable or hide the list box in the web page. , if i choose “CUSTOM” it will enable it again.

i tried this code, but it doesn’t work

if (DropDownList1.Text == "CUSTOM")
    {
        ListBox1.Visible = true;
    }

note : i put visible = false in the properties of the listbox1

where is the problem exactly ? and where should i put this condition on the .cs page ?

Answer 1

You need to add an event to the dropdown box, so that your code is executed when the event fires. If you are using the designer, select the dropdown then above where the properties are there should be a little lightning symbol. Click on that and you will see all the events that the dropdown can fire. In there look for SelectedIndexChanged. Double click in there and it will create some code for you, which will look something like:

protected void mycombobox_SelectedIndexChanged(object o, EventArgs e)
{

}

Put your code in that section.