Set selected item of DropDownListFor in view

Question

In my ASP MVC site I want to be able to select a default drop down list item in the view. However, the overload I'm currently using seems to just add another item to the drop down list instead of specifying which one I want selected.

Here is the code in the controller that created the SelectList

SelectList tmpList = new SelectList(new[] { "", "SAF", "SNY" });
ViewBag.Companies = tmpList;

And here is the code in the view. This, however, just winds up adding an extra SAF to the list like the screen shot below shows.

@Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.AgencyCompany1, (SelectList)ViewBag.Companies, "SAF")

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Check out this nice example http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7142961/mvc3-dropdownlistfor-a-simple-example — christophe.chapron, May 21 '13 at 17:16

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 21 '13 at 20:58

You can try this in your controller, where the second "SAF" is where you are setting the selected object:

ViewBag.list = new SelectList(new[] { "", "SAF", "SNY" }, "SAF");

And in your view (you don't need the last "SAF" parameter anymore):

@Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.AgencyCompany1, (SelectList)ViewBag.Companies)

Set selected item of DropDownListFor in view

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