>Using VS2005, I am creating a Asp.Net Webform. This form has a dropdown list webcontrol. I want to populate the dropdown with data from a table and set it's SelectedValue property. All of this works except for the SelectedValue.
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>When I look at the HTML source in IE, I notice that the Value tag for the dropdown has trailing spaces next to the value. For Example:
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><option value="0006   ">Description for 0006</option>
><option value="0007   ">Description for 0007</option>
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>How do I remove these trailing spaces behind the 0006 and 0007? The only way I can set a SelectedValue for this dropdown is to include the trailing spaces. I prefer not to do this. Below shows two examples, one works the other doesn't. How can I get example one to work?
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>//Example one
>this.cbo_soplant.SelectedValue = "0006";   //Does not work.
>//Example two
>this.cbo_soplant.SelectedValue = "0006   ";  //Works.
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>Thanks,
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>Jerry

Jerry,

A DropDownList will only accept a SelectedValue that exactly matches an item in the DataSource.DataValueField. In this case, the datasource is returning padded data.