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Riekard
Riekard

Reputation: 87

DropDownListFor selected value not working

So I have this in my view(I have broken it out into a foreach so I could debug it properly). And according to the objects that are created it looks good. I get 1 item that has the selected true. 

@{
    var useritems = new List<SelectListItem>();
    foreach (var si in Model.UserList)
    {
        if (Model.CurrentUser.Id.Equals(si.Id))
        {
            useritems.Add(new SelectListItem { Selected = true, Text = si.Username, Value = si.Id.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) }); 
        }
        else
        {
            useritems.Add(new SelectListItem { Text = si.Username, Value = si.Id.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) });
        }
    }
}

What I want to do here is check for the current(logged on) user and set the select default to him/her.

    @Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.Creator, useritems, new { id = "CreatorDDL", })

This does not however set any of the objects in useritems to selected. Even tho in the debugger it shows that 1 item has selected: true

Somehow it just shows the first item in the list. Any ideas? or am I just tired and missing something really easy?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 436

Answers (1)

teo van kot
teo van kot

Reputation: 12491

Set model.Creator value in addition to Selected in SelectList.

model.Creator = Model.CurrentUser.Id;

It's better to do such things in your Controller, not in your View.

Upvotes: 1

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