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  • What I'm trying to do is a button that when you click it, it creates a new drop down list. That's why I think that it has to be "Dynamically created with JQuery"(or javascript, not too sure of, because I don't know how many times the user is gonna make a new drop down list. So I don't see how to do it with the HtmlHelper. – Jose Pablo Jun 08 '15 at 08:49
  • You need to give a bit more information about waht you are really tring to do. You can only create one dropdown associated with property `number` - any others with the same name would just be ignored when you post (unless your property was `public string[] number { get; set; }`) –  Jun 08 '15 at 08:53
  • @StephenMuecke Also, I assume that if I want the selected value to be saved in a `public List someList { get; set; }` attribute I'd just have to set the name to `name="number[index]"`. **Edit** : Okay I just tried this and it worked. – Jose Pablo Jun 08 '15 at 08:58
  • To expand on previous comment: you can use `@Html.DropDownListFor`, but make it hidden initially - then *show* it with javascript. This would ensure correct binding to a single property (as in the question code (single `number` value). Maybe update the question to show that there may be multiple 'number' to be returned? – freedomn-m Jun 08 '15 at 09:03
  • @StephenMuecke Hm right, at first I thought that what you are suggesting would not work because the maximum amount of dropdowns to be created/displayed depends on a variable from a database, therefore not knowing the maximum amount of dropdowns to be created at the time that the HTML view loaded. But now that I think about it, the max amount of possible dropdowns could be passed as a parameter to the view, and then use a `@{for ...}` to create multiple `@Html.DropDownListFor` depending on that number. But I don't think I'm going to do it that way. (Not sure about how that'd work anyway) – Jose Pablo Jun 08 '15 at 09:15
  • @JosePablo, My initial comment relating to using the helper was related to your question (which does not have any mention of multiple dropdowns). In any case you should always start by using a helper so that you can inspect the html they generate and use that for you own client side templates. You might also be interested in [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29837547/set-class-validation-for-dynamic-textbox-in-a-table/29838689#29838689) –  Jun 08 '15 at 09:20
  • @StephenMuecke Yes thank you! My bad for explaining myself poorly in the question. – Jose Pablo Jun 08 '15 at 09:28

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