DropDownList Hyperlink to a different page

[southbean]

Hello All,

Disclaimer: I am a complete novice in asp.net

That said, what I would like to do is have users choose a value in a drop-down box on an .aspx (2.0) page and have that selection take them to another page.

This seems simple enough, but I’m having the most difficult time figuring it out.

I’ve been hacking with the <aspropDownList> tag. Is this an option?

Any/all help would be greatly appreciated!

- tm

 

[jmeckley]

do you want to do this client side (js) or server side (.net)?
for js you need to add an onclick event and call

window.location("url goes here");

for server side

//aspx
<asp:dropdownlist id="DDL" runat="server" autopostback="true" SelectedIndexChanged="MyDropDownFunction" />

//code behind
protected void MyDropDownFunction(object sender, eventargs e)
{
   if (this.DDL.SelectedIndex != -1)
   {
      repose.redirect("url goes here", true);
   }
}

before you go too much father research the technology. M$ made the product to learn as you go, but in my experience this only leads to frustration because you don't understand how the technology works.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

 

[southbean]

Hi Jason,

Thank you for your response!

I'm afraid your reply assumes I have more knowledge than I do regarding this kind of scripting.

I'm assuming (js) is JavaScript, which I know also know very little about.

So I guess my answer would be Server Side code. Although, I'm not familiar with the "code behind" reference.

However, when I used your code (I'm working in Visual Studio 2005) it indicated that "SelectedIndexChanged" was not a valid element in the dropdownlist tag.

Again, thank you for your response! And any further help would be greatly appreciated.

- tm

 

[jmeckley]

try onselectedindexchanged, it's something like that.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.