ASP.net DropDownList with no selected item

Question

I have a ASP DropDownList with items added to it. All what I want is to make the selection after the page loaded empty so there is no a selected item.

How can I do that?

Answer 1

If the dropdownlist is being populated by DataSource, is important do the DataBind before the insert. Otherwise the item insertion does not happen.

myDropDown.DataBind();
myDropDown.Items.Insert(0, new ListItem(string.Empty, string.Empty));
myDropDown.SelectedIndex = 0;

https://stackoverflow.com/a/2224636/1467453