Question

I am using a drop-down list in one of my templates.

@Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.LastName, Model.LastNames, new { id = "LastName" })

When drop-down list is displayed and if I want to pre-select any values from the items for drop-down list, how can that be done?

Answer 1

In your model you can set selected to true for the list of last names like so…

    List<SelectListItem> LastNames= new List<SelectListItem>();
items.Add(new SelectListItem
        {
          Text = "Jones",
          Value = "Jones"
        });
items.Add(new SelectListItem
        {
            Text = "Smith",
            Value = "Smith",
            Selected = true
        });
items.Add(new SelectListItem
        {
            Text = "Johnson",
            Value = "Johnson"
        });