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title: "Drop Down List Problem"  
description: "Drop Down List Problem"  
author: "Anurag Chaurasia"  
published: 2011-05-25  
updated: 2026-05-15  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/263/drop-down-list-problem  
category: "asp.net"  
tags: ["asp.net"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Drop Down List Problem

How to get the [selected value](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/525/get-selected-value-of-datagridviewcomboboxcolumn) from a [drop down](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/12694/drop-down-list-in-asp-dot-net-for-c-sharp-column-colour-does-not-belong-to-table) list at run time....??????????

## Replies

### Reply by Anonymous User

Hi...

You have two way to perform this task.

1) You will use java script to perform this task

2) You will genearte post back event or query string event to perform this task,

### Reply by Anurag Chaurasia

Hello Sir,

I dont want to Enable the auto post back Property of [drop](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/159392/how-to-fetch-the-value-of-the-selected-options-in-drop-down-in-php) down list then how it can be achived....

### Reply by Anonymous User

Hi...

You will use SelectedValue property of dropdown list to get selected [value](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23219/an-optimized-description-adds-value-to-experience-and-in-turn-effectively-guest-posting-packages) at runtime.

Please take a look at following links also may be it is useful for you.

http://mindstick.com/Articles/c59ff82f-4d2c-4874-a868-9088381efa69/?DropDownList%20in%20ASP.Net

http://mindstick.com/Blog/33/DropDownList%20in%20ASP%20Net


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