Question

My ASP.NET application has a requirement, where if a user selects a country from a country dropdownlist and if a country has a state (which usually every country has!), then a validation needs to be written down that checks that the state is selected.

If no state exists (for selected country, from country dropdownlist) then the validation should skipped and no error/validation message should thrown up.

I need to validate the state selection on the click of the button

Please guide me!

Code

   private void LoadCountry()
    {
        Country objcountry= new Country ();
        int iSuccess = 0;
        DataSet dsCtry= new DataSet();
        dsCtry= objcountry.LoadCountry();
        if (iSuccess == 0)
        {

            ddlCtry.DataSource = dsCtry.Tables[0];
            ddlCtry.DataTextField = "COUNTRY";
            ddlCtry.DataValueField = "COUNTRY";
            ddlCtry.DataBind();
            ddlCtry.Items.Insert(0, new ListItem("-- Select --", ""));
        }
    }

Thanks!

Answer 1

You should use two dropdownlists

The first one is for countries. The second is for states of country.

When user select one county, you get states of that country and bind into the second dropdownlist. And base on the size of the second dropdownlist, you can validate the selected state.

Hope this helps ^^