update panel is not working properly
<p>I have an update panel. inside this panel, there are two controls a label and a dropdown.</p>

<p>I'm changing the label's value using javascript. the dropdown has a selectIndexChanged event.</p>

<p>whenever this event fires it clears off the label's value i set using javascript.</p>

<p>What's going wrong here?</p>

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<p>Thanks for the responses. I understand that since label is not a user entry field the value is not retained on postback. Let me explain my situation.</p>

<p>There is a form</p>

<p>It has a textbox, an icon, and a dropdown that has an event. All these items are present inside an update panel.</p>

<p>Clicking on the icon will open popup. the text box value is populated from the popup using javascript. </p>

<p>I dont want the user to edit this textbox's value. So i changed readonly. It doesn't retain teh value. </p>

<p>is there a way to make this textbox disabled and still retain the value on postback?</p>
