asp.net dropdownlist strange behaviour

[DimPrawn]

And that, right there, is one reason ASP.NET is such a bunch of fail.

"Hey, let's wrap every page in a form tag and have a humungous hidden field to preserve state for the whole thing!"

"What about the case when a page needs multiple forms?"

"Nah, that'll never happen..."

Cue tortuous workarounds when you want a simple search form on the same page as another form, such as a blog comment form...

I have to say the whole sorry Web Forms ASP.NET idiom is complete garbage. It was obviously designed by a Win Forms fat-client team who had almost zero exposure and understanding of the web beyond "the Intranet with IE as the client browser".

There are so many bad design decisions in there and the most annoying thing is they make the process one work-around after another to create clean SEO friendly websites.

The future is the MVC framework.

http://www.asp.net/mvc/

[NickFitz]

of course there's a form tag in the master page...

And that, right there, is one reason ASP.NET is such a bunch of fail.

"Hey, let's wrap every page in a form tag and have a humungous hidden field to preserve state for the whole thing!"

"What about the case when a page needs multiple forms?"

"Nah, that'll never happen..."

Cue tortuous workarounds when you want a simple search form on the same page as another form, such as a blog comment form...

[scotspine]

noooo - i'd blagged a whole load of one of the htmlers' markup and was swapping out all the old controls for .not controls but hadn't spotted that a form tag had been left in. of course there's a form tag in the master page...etc etc.

[DimPrawn]

autopostback = true by any chance?

[scotspine]

it's ok. i'm being thick again

[scotspine]

i've got a d/downlist which is hosted in a masterpage. it works fine in all pages on the site except 2. on these 2 pages, whenever i try to select from it, it immediately resets itself back to the default 'please select' option. has anyone seen this before? any ideas?