Question

i have a dropdownlist control in asp.net which resides in a user control .The yuser control has a updatepannel .I want to set the dropdown selected value to a hidden field .How will i do this in javascript /Jquery .I don’t want to use server code ?

Answer 1

With jQuery it’s pretty straightforward:

$('#select_id').bind('change', function(){
   $('#hiddenfield_id').val($(this).val());
});

See it in action: http://www.jsfiddle.net/YjC6y/15/

(you would have to change the type from “text” to “hidden”)