Posting an Array

[acent]

Greetings.

I have a form with some runat="server" controls that have a style of display="none". For instance:

<asp:DropDownList ID="ddlLimitBy" style="display:none;" runat="server" />

On the client side, via javascript, this control get cloned with their id's set. For instance, ddlLimitBy becomes ddlLimitBy[]. All is well, with the client side.

What I can't figure out is how to then loop the ddlLimitBy[] array retrieving the values.

I'm working with VB.NET 2.0.

Any ideas are appreciated.

"If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid."
-Murphy's Military Laws

 

[acent]

Update:

I was able to determine that the entire form was not being submitted. Any ideas why all the form elements would not get submitted? Only the form elements with runat="server" are being submitted.

Thanks in advance.

"If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid."
-Murphy's Military Laws

 

[kss444]

as far as I know that is how .net works. If you want any controls ect.. past to the server you must use the runat=server or pass them by querysting or you can add them to the viewstate.

Ordinary Programmer

 

[jmeckley]

by "cloning" do you mean dynamically creating web server controls and adding them back to the page? if so research dynamically adding controls. if webforms isn't bad enough as is, dynamic controls are even more complex.

taking a whole different approach... if you add dynamic html input fields using javascript on the client, you should be able to access them through the Request.Form collection. make sure to set the id and name of the input elements. because you are dealing strictly with html and DOM elements at this point everything is a dictionary with strings for keys and values, so you will need to parse the values.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

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