>I need to obtain the value displayed in a DropDownListBox.
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>How can I obtain the value displayed or selected within the >DropDownListbox? I thought it would be something simple like >DropDownListbox.value, but apparently that is too simple.

Bill,

I'm assuming this is a web dropdownlist...

If you want the index of the selected item use something like:

mySelectedIndex = ddlMyDropDownList.SelectedItem.Value

To get the text of the selected item use something like this:

mySelectedText = ddlMyDropDownList.SelectedItem.Text

It is simple, but the terminology can throw you off (as it did me <g>).

Regards,
Carl.