Question

I guess this is simple, but i couldnot figure it out.

i have a dropdown list with values

America
Asia
Europe

I need to the display the ddl as Select Type and when i click the dropdownlist to see the values in it, it should display the three values, but i should not use Select Type as a list item and it should not be displayed in the list. It should only be used as a default text in ddl.

Thanks,

Answer 1

<asp:DropDownList runat="server">
    <ListItem Text="Select Type" Value="0" />
    <ListItem Text="America" Value="1" />
    <ListItem Text="Asia" Value="2" />
    <ListItem Text="Europe" Value="3" />
</asp:DropDownList>

Then I would add an “onclick” event to the <asp:DropDownList> like so:

<asp:DropDownList runat="server" onclick="javascript:RemoveDefault(this);">

and have a javascript function RemoveDefault() that did the following:

function RemoveDefault(select) { if (select.options[0].value == "0") select.remove(0); }