Hello - I have a couple of dropdownlists on my content page and I tried to insert a "Select..." in the page load event on that page. I noticed that the page load event on the content page doesn't get fired. How do I insert an item into the ddl when the page loads?

RD

It should...   Put a break on Sub Page_Load() on your content page and debug.  Hopefully that will help you track down your problem.

Even I faced that problem before. Try declaring javascript function on the page, and calling that function after all the control by Registerclientscriptblock or just normal asp:literal control.

<script>

function tobecalled(){...}

<asp:dropdown 1

<asp:dropdown 2

<asp:literal literal1

 and on code behind write literal1.Text="<script>tobecalled();</script> 

RDowdall:

I noticed that the page load event on the content page doesn't get fired.

I am confused, How does this problem come out? Have you tried to find out how this problem is caused? 

Hi RD,

As  your description, you cannot add items for the dropdownlist in the content page's load event. Is it right?

I have a test, it works fine, below is my test code in the content page codebehind.

public partial class TestDropDownList_Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        ListItem LI = new ListItem();
        LI.Text = "Selected Item";
        LI.Value = "select";

        this.DropDownList1.Items.Add(LI);
    }
} 

 How about your code?