Question

Need help

I have following code with classic asp

<select name="state" id="state">
    <option value="NJ">New Jersey</option>
</select>

Now i want just “NJ” not “New Jersey” while entering in database but it is storing “New Jersey”.

on submit button in postback i am trying to read value using

if gAspClassUtil.isSubmitted("submit") then
     Selectedstate = Request.form("state")
end if

but at this time value in “Selectedstate” is “New Jersey” not “NJ”

Please suggest me how to read option “VALUE” not “TEXT” from dropdown list
in classic asp.

Answer 1

What you are saying simply doesn’t happen.

If you have a value attribute in an option tag, the value will be sent in the form data, not the text.

The Request.Form collection only contains the data that is posted to the server. Only the value (if present) is sent to the server, the text from the option is not even possiple to get from the form data.

Some things to check:

• Whether the select element is actually inside the form element that is posted.
• That there is no Javascript that is changing the form data when the form is submitted (e.g. getting the text from the selected option and putting in a hidden field in the form).
• That the HTML code actually looks like that to the browser. (Use View Source.)
• That the code that you are showing is actually the code that runs.