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title: "Drop-down box in Gridview"  
description: "Drop-down box in Gridview"  
author: "E E Cummings"  
published: 2013-07-16  
updated: 2013-07-17  
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# Drop-down box in Gridview

Hi [Expert](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13120/an-expert-financial-advice-will-improve-your-finances)!

I have one [asp.net c#](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/12726/how-to-retrieve-file-version-of-assembly-information-window-in-asp-dot-net-c-sharp) [grid](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/369/how-can-i-add-a-column-name-to-my-grid)-view. This [gridview](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/873/update-delete-edit-gridview-in-asp-dot-net) requires [dropdown](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/263/ajax-toolkit-dropdownextender-in-asp-dot-net) box and [drop](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/159392/how-to-fetch-the-value-of-the-selected-options-in-drop-down-in-php)-down box's selected [data](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13050/salesforce-aiming-to-dominate-predictive-analytics-with-data-science) will come from database. Please help me for this.

Thanks in [advance](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/33258/jee-mains-and-jee-advance-exams)

## Replies

### Reply by shreesh chandra shukla

Hi!

Not heaps clear on your question - some code snippets or a thorough description would be more useful. But I will soldier on!

You can convert any field in an [ASP.NET](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/934/default-folders-available-inside-the-asp-dot-net-application-folder) GridView into a Template Field by selecting 'Edit Columns' on the Smart Tag. The Template Field will allow you to specify a control(s) to put inside that grid cell **instead of** a standard text box. You can bind it to whatever data source you like (or even bind the data source to the parent row). I suggest you google 'Grid View Template Field' for more thorough information about how to get it done.


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