I want to fill a combo box located in the top menu; the menu is in the file _layout.cshtml and I don't want to fill from every action I call in my application.
There is a way to fill the combo using a session variable from the razor view?
Thanks
Your question is very broad and assumes a lot, Do you need to even store the values, can you just add a select list?
<select>
<option value="1">option 1</option>
<option value="2">option 2</option>
<option value="3">option 3</option>
</select>
So I have a ViewModel with this attribute
public string number { get; set; }
And in my View I have the next drop down list:
<select>
<option value="1">one</option>
<option value="2">two</option>
<option value="3">three</option>
<option value="4">four</option>
</select>
How do I save the value that gets selected on the drop down list into the number attribute from my ViewModel?
Usually I would use #Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.number, listObject) but the dropdownlist that I'm trying to create has to be dynamically created with JQuery, therefore I can't use the HtmlHelper.
EDIT: As answered in the comments, what I want to accomplish may be possible with the html helper but I wanted to avoid that.
I am using this code on my Master page and wants to display option name on the reffered page
<select name=menu onchange="location.href=(menu.options[menu.selectedIndex].value)">
<option value="http:google.com">Google</option>
<option value="http:myurl.com">URL</option>
</select>
You need to use this to refer to event source object instead of menu the name of html element. You also have wrong url form and need to change it from http:google.com to http://google.com
Live Demo
<select name=menu onchange="window.location.href=(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value)">
<option value="http://www.google.com">Google</option>
<option value="http://www.stackoverflow.com">stackoverflow</option>
</select>
I have the following:
<form name="input" method="get" action="http://site:8083/Default.aspx?DC=" target="foo" onSubmit="window.open('', 'foo', 'width=1100 height=500,status=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes')">
<select name="DC">
<option value="1&Type=type1">1</option>
<option value="2&Type=type2">2</option>
<option value="3&Type=type3">3</option>
<option value="4&Type=type4">4</option>
<option value="5&Type=type5">5</option>
<option value="6&Type=type6">6</option>
<option value="7&Type=type7">7</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value=">>"/>
</form>
Basically my querystring should be something like DC=1&Type=type1 the problem I have is that when I click the >> button above the html screws up the stirng by changing & to %26 and = to %3D
How can I make the value stay as I have it in the code above?
Yes, that's the expected behaviour, the HTTP GET works this way, values are encoded to difference from keys. In GET, browsers append key=value pairs separated by '&' and starting with a '?'; you shouldn't specify them by yourself in the url.
I think you should change your code in this way, maybe it's what you want to get:
<form name="input" method="get" action="http://site:8083/Default.aspx" target="foo" onSubmit="updateType()">
<select name="DC">
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
<!-- etc... -->
</select>
<input type="hidden" name="Type"/>
<input type="submit" value=">>"/>
</form>
and in Javascript...:
function updateType(){
// set up 'Type'
document.forms[0].Type.value = 'Type' + document.forms[0].DC.value;
// open popup
window.open('', 'foo', 'width=1100 height=500,status=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes')
return true;
}
Forms are designed to submit key/value pairs of data where the key is the name of the control and the value is the value. They will not mash arbitrary strings together.
Design your server side program to expect input in the format the forms are designed to use.
...and this is correct. Request-Parameters [get] should be encoded.
When you get the Request, your Server should decode them [apache/php] or i don't know ASP but in php it gaves a function called urldecode() ...
Try using:
HttpUtility.UrlDecode()
Further reading
So what you're trying to do is have two different query string set to two different values when a single item on your form is set. While your attempted solution is a neat idea, clearly the browser is actively preventing you from using that method (for security reasons) and rightly so. I see two solutions that would work well for you.
Use the form to send just one query string (i.e. DC) and on the server side, determine what the value of 'Type' should be. If it's really, really important to have both values as query strings (for example you're re-using a Control that only looks at those query strings) then use Server.Transfer on the server side to add the additional query string(s).
Provide two types of inputs on the form. One being the select box that you have there, another being either a hidden select box, a hidden input field, or whatever else fits for you. Add Javascript to the page such that when the selection is changed on the visible select box you set the hidden field to the correct value, then when the form is submitted both inputs are each submitting only one query string, as the browser is designed to support.
Here's an implemention of choice #2:
<script type="text/javascript">
var DCMapping = new Array();
DCMapping["1"] = "type1";
DCMapping["2"] = "type2";
DCMapping["3"] = "type3";
DCMapping["4"] = "type4";
DCMapping["5"] = "type5";
DCMapping["6"] = "type6";
DCMapping["7"] = "type7";
function selectionChanged(selectBox)
{
alert(DCMapping[selectBox.value]);
document.getElementById('hidType').value = DCMapping[selectBox.value];
}
</script>
<form name="input" method="get" action="http://site:8083/Default.aspx" target="foo"
onSubmit="window.open('', 'foo', 'width=1100 height=500,status=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes')">
<select name="DC" onchange="selectionChanged(this)">
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
<option value="4">4</option>
<option value="5">5</option>
<option value="6">6</option>
<option value="7">7</option>
</select>
<input type="hidden" name="Type" id="hidType" value="1" />
<input type="submit" value=">>"/>
</form>
You should use:
HttpUtility.UrlDecode();
To convert escape characters in the url
You can remove the method and action from the <form>. Instead extend the JavaScript/VBScript to pick up the value of the selected option and catenate it with the url root.
You don't need to mess with url decoding, the %.. should work fine as-is.
I am using asp.net and have a HtmlSelect element on my page (with runat="server"). Normally I will just set the DataSource to some loaded data and DataBind. However in this case the data has one level of hierarchy and I want to represent this in the HTML with an optgroup. Google hasn't come up with any joy - is this even possible?
I've had a similar problem to solve and this is how I did it. Before I continue I did find all sorts of re-fracturing methods for lists, which probably do work. However, I did not think this the best route to go for my solution. Here's what I did:
I also needed to know which option a user selected in the drop down list but found that you can't build drop down list with option groups in ASP.net. So to do this I just built a simple <select> with <optgroup>'s and <option>'s in each group. Then I placed a <div> with a hidden textbox, which had the runat="server" set. I set the "onchange" event, on the select, to change the text value of the hidden textbox to whatever the value the option was, which was selected by the user, using javascript. Then, when the post back occurs, the code behind had access to the value the user selected, via the hidden textbox's runat="server". Problem solved! The code looks something like this:
Code in the HTML (aspx):
<div id="selectDiv">
<select id="selectItems" onchange="document.getElementById('hiddenselectDiv').getElementsByTagName('input')[0].value = this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;">
<optgroup label="Johannesburg">
<option value="Wilropark">Wilropark</option>
<option value="Bryanpark">Bryanpark</option>
<option value="Hurlingham">Hurlingham</option>
<option value="Midrand ">Midrand </option>
<option value="Glenvista">Glenvista</option>
<option value="Sunninghill">Sunninghill</option>
<option value="Edenvale ">Edenvale </option>
<option value="Parkhurst">Parkhurst</option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup label="Cape Town">
<option value="Tokai">Tokai</option>
<option value="Durbanville">Durbanville</option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup label="Durban">
<option value="Musgrave">Musgrave</option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup label="Pretoria">
<option value="Hatfield">Hatfield</option>
</optgroup>
</select>
</div>
<div id="hiddenSelectDiv">
<!--
Note: You probably want to set the hidden value to the first item you have seleced when you build the <select> object.
-->
<input type="hidden" id="selectedItem" value="Wilropark">
</div>
In the Code behind (C#):
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(selectedItem.Value))
{
//validation or whatever you want....
}
I've been looking around for the same thing, and it doesn't look like ASP supports this natively. One Google search found someone recommending a library at http://www.codeplex.com/SharpPieces, but I've never used it and I don't know how good it is. Other people talk about writing your own renderer for optgroup support.