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Nick Masao
Nick Masao

Reputation: 1108

MVC - Clear default selected value of SelectList

I have a SelectList that gets populated with data from the database. The data comes from a Dictionary<int, string> and populates the SelectList like below.

//...

Courses = new SelectList(GetCourses(),"Key","Value");

//...

On the View, it shows the first record from the database as the default selected value on the dropdown. I'd like to clear this value and leave the dropdown empty so the user can manually select a value. If possible without using javascript.

//I have this on the view
<%= Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.CourseID, Model.Courses) %>

Please help!

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4363

Answers (1)

Craig Stuntz
Craig Stuntz

Reputation: 126547

Use the overload which takes an optionLabel:

<%= Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.CourseID, Model.Courses, string.Empty) %>

Upvotes: 9

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