Value from drop down

I have an HTML drop down menu with name='technician' which is composed of option values. When I try to write it to my db how do I request teh selected value in my ASP app. I was using Request.Form('technician') but it is giving me an error 'Item cannot be found in the collection corresponding to the requested name or ordinal.'

Do I need like Request.Form'technician.value' or somethin?

Thanks

 

Try using this....


<asp:dropdownlist runat="server" id="DropDownList1">
<asp:listitem value="val1">value 1</asp:listitem>
<asp:listitem value="val2">value 2</asp:listitem>
<asp:listitem value="val3">value 3</asp:listitem>
</asp:dropdownlist>
<asp:Button id=Button1 runat="server" Text="Button" />



private void Button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) {


Response.Write(DropDownList1.SelectedValue);


}


Joel Thoms

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Honestly I'd love to, but the asp app only handles the post of an HTML form. My company just wants to reuse the HTML form they have now, I just changed the POST method because their web guy currently knows HTML and not ASP, Im just a temp. So in my HTML FORM its like this:

<td width='145'>
<select name='technician' width='146' style='width: 146px'>
<option value=''></option>
<option value='Carlos'>Carlos Gonzalez</option>
<option value='John'>John Long</option>
<option value='Giovanni'>Giovanni Moffet</option>
<option value='Rob'>Rob Nordenstrom</option>
</select>
</td>

This is the ASP: (relevant parts)

Dim rsAdd

...stuff in between of course

rsAdd.Fields('Technician') = Request.Form('technician') <===ERROR

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Nevermind, fixed it.