Obtain value of combobox in script

[Alan T]

Very simple scenario here,

Got 2 Combobox's when either of them change value, i want a label to display the value.

Without a postback, so js / ajax

[Shinu]

Hello,

You can attach the 'OnClientSelectedIndexChanged' event to RadComboBox and get the selecteditem text in the client event handler using  "eventArgs.get_item().get_text()" method, then show the value in label text.

You can find out more client side methods of RadComboBox object here:

Client-Side Basics

RadComboBox object

-Shinu.

[Alan T]

Hi Shinu,

I can get the value ok, but am struggling to set a label's value to it.

                 var county = document.getElementById("<%= lbl_countrydisplay.ClientID %>");
                 country.set_text = text


Tried something like that, also tried your standard JS funcitons like .value

[robertw102]

If you want to the set the value in the label it would go like this:

country.innerHTML = value;

[Alan T]

yeah tried that, that changes on the screen, but if i try access it server side it still has the old value. Ie, i need to do something with the value of the label server side and doing label.text isn't returning the updated value.

[sitefinitysteve]

Does this do anything?

[Schlurk]

Alan,

This is more of a general ASP.NET Ajax issue, but basically what you are setting as the label's text via javascript is not being persisted to the code-behind. One way to address this would be to take use of hidden fields and set their value equal to what you just set the label's innerHTML equal to. An example of this can be found in this ASP.NET forum thread.