SelectedIndexChanged event won't fire for DropDownList

[sjthebat]

Consider this simple web app:
It contains only a DropDownList, with 4 ListItems.

Item#   Text    Value
---------------------
 0      dog      pet
 1      cat      pet
 2      rabbit   pet
 3      salmon   fish

Now, I set the AutoPostBack of ddl to True. And let the event-handler for 'SelectedIndexChanged' just write out
the Text for currently selected item.

If you change a type of pet to fish, the 'SelectedIndexChanged' event does get fired. All works well. But if you change items among pets. The event will never be fired. It seems that 'SelectedIndexChanged' event depends on the change of the Value of listitems.

Did I do sth. wrong? Or could someone educate me on this? Thanks!

 

[ca8msm]

Hmmm you must be doing something wrong as it should change every time the index changes (irrelevant of what the value is).

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