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H. Pauwelyn
H. Pauwelyn

Reputation: 14280

Razor syntax for DropDownListFor

How can I write code below with a HTML helper?

<select name="CountryId">
    @foreach (var c in ViewBag.Counties) {
        <option value="@c.Id">@c.Name</option>
    }
</select>

This code above will give the right html code in my browser. But if I use the HTML helper below the value attribute from the option tags are missing. 

@Html.DropDownListFor(
    model => model.CountryId, 
    new SelectList(ViewBag.Countries, "Name"), 
    new { htmlAttributes = new { @class = "form-control" } }
)

What's wrong in this code if you know that ViewBag.Counties is an object from type List<Country> and has the properties Name (type of string) and CounrtyId (type of int).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2249

Answers (1)

praveen
praveen

Reputation: 1375

Try this.your selectlist item class should be created in the parent class that is model class you are binding in the view page.

 @Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.CountryId,new SelectList(ViewBag.Countries,"CountryID", "CountryName"),new {@class='form-control'})

Upvotes: 2

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