Ajax fill country state and city without postback in asp.net

Country will be filled on page load and once user will select any country we will fill states from that country and again when user will change state we will fill city for that state without postback ( asynchronously) with the help of update panel in asp.net.

Create three methods to fetch country, state by country and city by state

 CountryRepository.FetchCountries(); to fetch country from database
 StateRepository.FetchStates(Int32 CountryID); // to fetch state for country
 CityRepository.FetchCities(Int32 StateID); // to fetch city for state

I left code detail to get data from database, I know you guys can do it easily.

Now let's adjust our HTML, first we need a script manager to our page to use update panel so add it

<asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server" />
    <asp:UpdatePanel ID="upnlCountry" runat="server" UpdateMode="Conditional">        
    <ContentTemplate>
        <div>
            <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlCountry" runat="server"  
                AutoPostBack="true"
                CssClass="ddl2" 
                OnSelectedIndexChanged="ddlCountry_SelectedIndexChanged" />
        </div>
        <div>
            <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlState" runat="server" 
                AutoPostBack="true"
                CssClass="ddl2" 
                OnSelectedIndexChanged="ddlState_SelectedIndexChanged" />
        </div>

        <div>
            <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlCity" runat="server" 
                CssClass="ddl2" />
        </div>
    </ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>

You can notice we added auto postbakc = true to out country and state drop down so it can call our code behing method and keep in an update panel so it will call those methods asynchronously. Now time to add code, so here is the complete code

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (!IsPostBack)
    {
        ddlCountry.DataSource = CountryRepository.FetchCountries();
        ddlCountry.DataTextField = "CountryName";
        ddlCountry.DataValueField = "CountryID";
        ddlCountry.DataBind();
        // Add an item to show select country
        ddlCountry.Items.Insert(0, new ListItem("Select Country", "0"));
    }
}

protected void ddlCountry_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    // First clear both state and city drop down
    ddlState.Items.Clear();
    ddlCity.Items.Clear();

    // we will fill state only when any country is selected
    if (Convert.ToInt32(ddlCountry.SelectedValue) > 0)
    {
        ddlState.DataSource = StateRepository.FetchStates(Convert.ToInt32(ddlCountry.SelectedValue));
        ddlState.DataTextField = "StateName";
        ddlState.DataValueField = "StateID";
        ddlState.DataBind();
    }
    // Add an item to show select state
    ddlState.Items.Insert(0, new ListItem("Select State", "0"));
    ddlCity.Items.Insert(0, new ListItem("Select City", "0"));
}

protected void ddlState_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    // First clear city drop down
    ddlCity.Items.Clear();

    // we will fill city only when any state is selected
    if (Convert.ToInt32(ddlState.SelectedValue) > 0)
    {
        ddlCity.DataSource = CityRepository.FetchCities(Convert.ToInt32(ddlState.SelectedValue));
        ddlCity.DataTextField = "CityName";
        ddlCity.DataValueField = "CityID";
        ddlCity.DataBind();
    }
    // Add an item to show select city
    ddlCity.Items.Insert(0, new ListItem("Select City", "0"));
}

We use ddlXXX.Items.Insert(0, new ListItem("Select XXXX", "0")) to add an item at position 0 to show a message to select, and in SelectedIndexChanged event we first check if user is selected the very first item then we are just clearing the next drop down and not calling any method to get data from database because that is not needed.

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