ON the change event of a drop down box how can i capture the value that was choosen and pass it into a sql query to build the next drop down box?<BR><BR>Thank you <BR><BR>CarlosI'm not sure this is what you're looking for, but here's how you can access the currently selected value of a dropdownlist:<BR><BR>myDropDownList.SelectedItem.Value;<BR><BR>and the display text for that item:<BR><BR>myDropDownList.SelectedItem.Text;<BR><BR>you can also set which one is selected, e.g. this would select the second item in the list:<BR><BR>myDropDownList.Items[1].Selected = true;<BR><BR><BR>hope it helps<BR>- Christian<BR>Thank you i never knew you could do that . What i am trying to do is store the value selected in a variable so that i can reun a sql query with that variable and build a record/data set for the next Drop down list.<BR><BR>Hope that clarifies things?<BR><BR>Carlos