How to get selected values from code behind?

[megan brown]

I can get the indexes of the selected items, but I want to get the values of the selected items.  How do I get the values?

code behind:

        //this gets the index of the selected items

        foreach (int item in brandSelect.SelectedItems)

        {

        }

aspx:

<ej:DropDownList ID="brandSelect" runat="server" DataTextField="Brands" ShowCheckbox="true"></ej:DropDownList></span>

[Ezhil S]

Hi Megan,

Thank you for contacting Syncfusion support.

In order to get the Selected items value of a DropDownList control in code behind on a post back, we suggest you to use the Text property of the DropDownList control. In code behind you can get all the selected items value separated with a delimiter(,), if you want to get the items individually then using Split() method for DropDownList.Text property will return you a collection of selected item values separately. Please refer the following code snippet,
<code>
[ASPX]

    <ej:DropDownList ID="brandSelect" runat="server" DataIdField="ID" DataTextField="Text" ShowCheckbox="true"></ej:DropDownList>

    <br />

    Selected value after post back: <br />

    <asp:Label runat="server" ID="lbl" ></asp:Label><br /> <%--label value updated after post back--%>

<asp:Button Text="PostBack" runat="server" ID="btn1" OnClick="btn1_Click" />
[CodeBehind.cs]

        protected void btn1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            lbl.Text = "";

            foreach (string val in brandSelect.Text.Split(','))

            {

                lbl.Text += val+" , "; // set the label text with selected items value

            }
        }
</code>

Download the sample prepared from the link below:
http://www.syncfusion.com/downloads/support/forum/119307/ze/DropDown_f119307-1200685286

Please let us know if you have any other queries.

Regards,
Ezhil S

[megan brown]

Thanks.  Since I want the value and the not the text, I changed your code to:

        foreach (string val in brandSelect.Value.Split(','))

        {

            //do something

        }

And this worked.

[Ezhil S]

Hi Megan,

Thanks for the update.

We are glad that the suggested solution worked to met with your requirement.

Please let us know if you have any other queries.

Regards,
Ezhil S