Looping through Multiple Dropdowns with different ID's but same elemen

[MayoorPatel]

Hi there I have a category and subcategory dropdown on my form as follows

http://www.mayoor.co.uk/cat1.jpg

However I want to have another 4 of these with different ID's. The code used to set the selected item is as follows

If Not ds.Tables(2).Rows.Count = 0 Then
            drpMainCategory.Items.FindByValue(ds.Tables(2).Rows(0)("num")).Selected = True
            Utility.PopulateSubCategory(drpMainSubCategory, ds.Tables(2).Rows(0)("num"))
            For Each row As DataRow In ds.Tables(2).Rows
                drpMainSubCategory.Items.FindByValue(row("subcategoryid")).Selected = True
            Next
        End If

Can somebody reccomend how I could amend my code to cater for multiple dropdowns with similar names ID's for instance the category dropdown is called drpMainCategory and the subcategory is called drpMainSubCategory. I want to name the others

drpMainCategory1, drpMainCategory2, drpMainCategory3, drpMainCategory4, drpMainCategory5

drpMainSubCategory1, drpMainSubCategory2, drpMainSubCategory3, drpMainSubCategory4, drpMainSubCategory5

I will also have to change the structure of my database so that the tables show the dropdown ID of the subcategory but for now I just want to know how to loop through the dropdown elements.

Thanks

 

[ca8msm]

Just use the FindControl method to get a reference to the relevant control


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