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If you want the item to be visible, but not selectable your best bet is to make the items an &lt;optgroup&gt; tag.<br />
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here is an article that shows you how to create a control to do this:<br />
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<a href="http://www.aspnetmania.com/Code/Code/128.html" rel="ugc">http://www.aspnetmania.com/Code/Code/128.html</a><br />
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The article is in russian... but C# is the same everywhere in the world so the code is all you need :)
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If you want the item to be visible, but not selectable your best bet is to make the items an <optgroup> tag.

here is an article that shows you how to create a control to do this:

http://www.aspnetmania.com/Code/Code/128.html [http://www.aspnetmania.com/Code/Code/128.html]

The article is in russian... but C# is the same everywhere in the world so the code is all you need :)

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I would really suggest against using OPTGROUP because that is not what that tag is intended for ... unless grouping of OPTIONs is what you really need to do.<br />
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Instead I would recommend adding a disabled attribute to the individual OPTIONS that should be DISABLED:<br />
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myDropDownList.Items[0].At<wbr />tributes.A<wbr />dd(&quot;disabl<wbr />ed&quot;, &quot;disabled&quot;);
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I would really suggest against using OPTGROUP because that is not what that tag is intended for ... unless grouping of OPTIONs is what you really need to do.

Instead I would recommend adding a disabled attribute to the individual OPTIONS that should be DISABLED:

myDropDownList.Items[0].Attributes.Add("disabled", "disabled");

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I have a dropdownlist that I populate in the code-behind.<br />
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In this dropdownlist I want to disable some listitems to prevent the user from selecting them . they are in the list for clarification only.<br />
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Is this possible to do from the code behind?
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I have a dropdownlist that I populate in the code-behind.

In this dropdownlist I want to disable some listitems to prevent the user from selecting them . they are in the list for clarification only.

Is this possible to do from the code behind?

[ASP.NET] Disable particular items in a dropdownlist

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