HtmlSelect.Items Property
Gets a collection that contains the items listed in an HtmlSelect control.
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListItemCollectionA System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListItemCollection that contains the items listed in an HtmlSelect control.
Use the Items collection to manage the items listed in the HtmlSelect control. You can programmatically add items to, remove items from, and insert items into the collection.
The Items collection is commonly used to iterate through the items in the HtmlSelect control. For example, when multiple items are selected, you can iterate through the Items collection to determine which items are selected.
The following code example demonstrates how to use the Items collection to iterate through the items in the HtmlSelect control and determine which items are selected.
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="True" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <script runat="server"> void Button_Click (Object sender, EventArgs e) { Label1.Text = "You selected:"; for (int i = 0; i <= Select1.Items.Count - 1; i++) { if (Select1.Items[i].Selected) Label1.Text += "<br /> -" + Select1.Items[i].Text; } } </script> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head> <title> HtmlSelect Example </title> </head> <body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <h3> HtmlSelect Example </h3> Select items from the list: <br /><br /> <select id="Select1" multiple="true" runat="server"> <option value="1" selected="selected"> Item 1 </option> <option value="2"> Item 2 </option> <option value="3"> Item 3 </option> <option value="4"> Item 4 </option> <option value="5"> Item 5 </option> <option value="6"> Item 6 </option> </select> <br /><br /> <button id="Button1" onserverclick="Button_Click" runat="server"> Submit </button> <br /><br /> <asp:Label id="Label1" runat="server"/> </form> </body> </html>
Available since 1.1