"Bob Owens" <howboutafresca@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1104219312.610735.27550@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I have an html form (generated by asp.net of course) with several
> DropDowns and text boxes on it. I'd like to handle things such that
> every time the form is posted back this information is saved (to a
> database in my case, but that's not important here) and the various asp
> elements are reset to their "default" values. In other words I don't
> want the controls to keep their postback values.
>
> Instead, they're in "Night of the Living Dead" mode. They keep coming
> back with these postback values no matter what.
>
> How can I force my controls to forget their previous state? I've
> disabled the enableviewstate property on some of them, only to learn
> that the viewstate is _not_ responsible for these things retaining
> their values on postback.
>

Bob Owens wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an html form (generated by asp.net of course) with several
> DropDowns and text boxes on it. I'd like to handle things such that
> every time the form is posted back this information is saved (to a
> database in my case, but that's not important here) and the various
> asp elements are reset to their "default" values. In other words I
> don't want the controls to keep their postback values.
>
> Instead, they're in "Night of the Living Dead" mode. They keep coming
> back with these postback values no matter what.
>
> How can I force my controls to forget their previous state? I've
> disabled the enableviewstate property on some of them, only to learn
> that the viewstate is _not_ responsible for these things retaining
> their values on postback.