"Northern" <lifeng26@msn.com> wrote in message
news:05d001c34da9$49e10000$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I have an ASP DropdownList populated. What I want is to
> select a new item, in my code, by set a datavale to
> dropdownlist's selectedItem.Value property. I did the
> following:
>
> MyDropdown.SelectedItem.Value = "value 1"
>
> Even though the "value 1" is in the dropdownlist's data
> value collection, the dropdown's datatext doesn't change.
>
> What am I doing wrong here? How should I do this?
>
> Please help!
>