Wednesday, 2 November 2016

ASP.Net - fix error - Cannot have multiple items selected in a DropDownList.


Cannot have multiple items selected in a DropDownList.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. 

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Here is my HTML:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList1" runat="server">
            <asp:ListItem>ONE</asp:ListItem>
            <asp:ListItem>TWO</asp:ListItem>
            <asp:ListItem>THREE</asp:ListItem>
        </asp:DropDownList>
        <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button" />
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html> 


And here is my code behind

        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            ListItem lst = DropDownList1.Items.FindByText("ONE");
            if (lst != null)
            {
                lst.Selected = true;
            }           
        } 



To fix it replace
  lst.Selected = true;
With
                DropDownList1.SelectedIndex = DropDownList1.Items.IndexOf(DropDownList1.Items.FindByText("ONE")); 
  

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