How to select an item in a DropDownList by value Asp.Net

Created: 31/10/2013

Software: Visual Studio 2012, fwk 3.5

Code i used.
Asp.Net

<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <asp:DropDownList ID="ddListTest" runat="server">
            <asp:ListItem Value="item1" Selected="True">Item 1</asp:ListItem>
            <asp:ListItem Value="item2">Item 2</asp:ListItem>
            <asp:ListItem Value="item3">Item 3</asp:ListItem>
        </asp:DropDownList>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        ddListTest.ClearSelection();
        ddListTest.Items.FindByValue("item2").Selected = true;
    }
}

1) Add dropdownlist to your website
and in code-behind try to select some item by using FindByValue

This is a result:

2) But what about if i whant to set previously selection of any item in html like this example:

I will recive: You cant select more than one item.

To solve this issue just add ClearSelection before your assignment like this:

And the result

That's all, hope this helps somebody.