Simplest way to create a dropdown in MVC

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I am a beginner to MVC and now i would like to use Drop down in the form? i have tried using the Dropdownlistfor but it not working properly do we need any additional scripts for this.

Please, show the code that you've tried to implement. Another solution is to manually build the dropdown list with — Vsevolod Goloviznin, Nov 20 '14 at 08:31
http://www.asp.net/mvc/overview/older-versions/working-with-the-dropdownlist-box-and-jquery/using-the-dropdownlist-helper-with-aspnet-mvc — İsmet Alkan, Nov 20 '14 at 08:43
[How to create a dropDown list in MVC4](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26950614/how-to-create-a-dropdown-list-in-mvc4/26952781#26952781) — , Nov 20 '14 at 11:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 20 '14 at 09:03

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does drop down has dynamic/Database value? Yes? As a first step, you need to have a model property which has the drop down values, something like

 public List<States> StatesDDL
{ get; set;} // get the list of values here.

Static drop down? use the plain HTML

<select id="_ddlStates">
<option></option>...
</select>

good luck...

answered Nov 20 '14 at 09:03

Ashwath

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am not able to retrieve the value from the dropdownlist on to the page – jairam chakravarthi Nov 21 '14 at 05:50
use a jQuery selector. For Example - var ddlVal = $('#yourDDLName').val(); – Ashwath Nov 21 '14 at 08:26

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 20 '14 at 09:07

In the the action method of your controller, you have to set a viewbag which is filled with list.

ViewBag.StudentID = new SelectList(db.Students, "StudentID", "Name");

And in the View just use the DropDownList Html Helper

@Html.DropDownList("StudentID", String.Empty)

Simplest way to create a dropdown in MVC

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