Question

I have a dropdown as follows:

 @Html.DropDownList("studentList", myModel.GetMyList())

I have a variable that stores the selected value in javeascript.

 userID = $("#studentList> option:selected").attr("value")

However, I need to send the seleted value in c# to my controller. How can I achive that?

How do I read the selected value from the dropdown in c# or how can I “translate” the javascript value in c# varaiable?

Answer 1

It’s “Simple”, Create a HiddenField, and store the selected values in that, before post your data to server.

to get the selected values try something like that:

var myValues= new Array();
$("#studentList> option:selected").each(function(){
    myValues.push($(this).attr('value'));
})

$('#hiddenField').attr('value', myValues.join(','));

On then server-side, just have to split the string to get the values