Question

I am using following code to show the drop down in my aspx page and the data loaded in the dropdown are occurring by SqlDatasource4

 <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownListnew" runat="server" 
     CssClass="ddlb" Width="210px" Height="30px" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource4" 
     DataTextField="OrderPeriod" DataValueField="OrderPeriodID">
 </asp:DropDownList>

When i tried to access the Dropdown data in my C# file by following code:

string data = DropDownListnew.Text;

It prints the no of selected value, I want to store selected value in data string. How should i do that?

Answer 1

You can access it by;

string data = DropDownListnew.SelectedValue; // property not .Text property