Thread: Hiding/Showing Content

I am working in Address.aspx.cs and have an issue when trying to hide a specific field. I am using "CountyDropDownData(ctrlAddress)" to pull counties into a drop down box.

I have been trying to have the ctrlAddress.ShowCounty be true if OH is the selected state. The only problem is that I put an if statement in the ctrlAddress_SelectedStateChanged:

Code:

if (ctrlAddress.State == "OH" && ctrlAddress.Country == "United States")
                {
                    ctrlAddress.ShowCounty = true;
                }
                else
                {
                    ctrlAddress.ShowCounty = false;
                }

If the page loads and the selected state is OH, my script works fine, but when I change to another state, and clickout for the postback, and then choose Ohio, the field shows, but it's not populated. It's like the datasource isn't known. I have tried putting "CountyDropDownData(ctrlAddress);" in the selectedstatechanged event but that does nothing.

Currently, the state has to be saved in the db as OH for the drop down to work properly. Any ideas?

If the dropdown is only shown when Ohio is chosen then could you not just populate it with the county names manually in the HTML?

Or am I not understanding what it is you're trying to do?

I have a list of counties in a table along with what their tax rate is. I have the tax rate looking at that table to pull the customers tax rate if t hey are from ohio. That part works at least

In that case I would think the easiest solution is to manually insert the list into the dropdown as I expect Ohio won't be changing the current names or adding new counties anytime soon. Sometimes old school HTML is a better choice than that new-fangled dynamic stuff.