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ListItemCollection.Item[Int32] Property

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Definition

Namespace:
System.Web.UI.WebControls
Assembly:
System.Web.dll

Gets a ListItem at the specified index in the collection.

C# 
public System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListItem this[int index] { get; }

Parameters

index
Int32

The zero-based index of the ListItem to retrieve from the collection.

Property Value

ListItem

The ListItem object at the specified index in the collection.

Examples

The following code example demonstrates how to select multiple items from a ListBox control and add the selected items to a DataGrid control. The example uses a foreach loop to iterate through the ListItem objects in the ListItemCollection collection of the ListBox control.

ASP.NET (C#) 
<%@ Page language="c#" AutoEventWireup="true"%>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Data" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script language="C#" runat="server">
            // Global Variables.
            private DataView dv;
            private DataTable dt = new DataTable();

            private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
            {
// <Snippet4>
                // Set the number of rows displayed in the ListBox to be
                // the number of items in the ListBoxCollection.
                ListBox1.Rows = ListBox1.Items.Count;
// </Snippet4>

                // If the DataTable is already stored in the Web form's default
                // HttpSessionState variable, then don't recreate the DataTable.
                if (Session["data"] == null)
                {
                    // Add columns to the DataTable.
                    dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Item"));
                    dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Price"));
            // Store the DataTable in the Session variable so it can 
                    // be accessed again later.
                    Session["data"] = dt;
                    
                    // Use the table to create a DataView, because the DataGrid
                    // can only bind to a data source that implements IEnumerable.
                    dv = new DataView(dt);
            
                    // Set the DataView as the data source, and bind it to the DataGrid.
                    DataGrid1.DataSource = dv;
                    DataGrid1.DataBind();
                }
            }

            private void addButton_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
            {
// <Snippet5>
                // Add the items selected in ListBox1 to DataGrid1.
                foreach (ListItem item in ListBox1.Items)
                {
                    if (item.Selected)
                    {
                        // Add the item to the DataGrid.
                        // First, get the DataTable from the Session variable.
                        dt = (DataTable)Session["data"];
            
                        if (dt != null)
                        { 
                            // Create a new DataRow in the DataTable.
                            DataRow dr = dt.NewRow();
                            // Add the item to the new DataRow.
                            dr["Item"] = item.Text;
                            // Add the item's value to the DataRow.
                            dr["Price"] = item.Value;
                            // Add the DataRow to the DataTable.
                            dt.Rows.Add(dr);
// </Snippet5>

                            // Rebind the data to DataGrid1.
                            dv = new DataView(dt);
                            DataGrid1.DataSource = dv;
                            DataGrid1.DataBind();
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        </script>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
    <head>
    <title> ListItemCollection Example </title>
</head>
    
    <body>
        <form id="form1" runat="server">

            <h3> ListItemCollection Example </h3>

            <table cellpadding="6" border="0">
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">
                        <asp:ListBox id="ListBox1" runat="server" SelectionMode="Multiple">
                            <asp:ListItem Value=".89">apples</asp:ListItem>
                            <asp:ListItem Value=".49">bananas</asp:ListItem>
                            <asp:ListItem Value="2.99">cherries</asp:ListItem>
                            <asp:ListItem Value="1.49">grapes</asp:ListItem>
                            <asp:ListItem Value="2.00">mangos</asp:ListItem>
                            <asp:ListItem Value="1.09">oranges</asp:ListItem>
                        </asp:ListBox>
                    </td>

                    <td valign="top">
                        <asp:Button id="addButton" runat="server" Text="Add -->"
                            Width="100px" OnClick="addButton_Click"></asp:Button>
                    </td>

                    <td valign="top">
                        <asp:DataGrid Runat="server" ID="DataGrid1" CellPadding="4">
                        </asp:DataGrid>
                    </td>
                </tr>
            </table>        
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

Remarks

Use this indexer to get a ListItem from the ListItemCollection at the specified index, using array notation.

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1

See also