Question

I have an editor template for a custom object. Inside that editor template I use a couple of DropDownListFor helpers. In each of them I specify a unique model property (with the pre-selected value) and the select list containing all the select options.

Example:

<%=Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.DocumentCategoryType, Model.DocumentCategoryTypeList) %>

I know that the option values are being populated (from viewing source) and that my Model is passed in with the correct ID value (DocumentCategoryType).

When the view is rendered, there is no selected item in my dropdown and therefore it defaults to the first (non-selected) value.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Yuck. I ended up solving it like this. I hope this gets fixed for RTM.

   <%if(Model!=null){ %>
        <%= Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.DocumentCategoryType, new SelectList(Model.DocumentCategoryTypeList,"Value","Text", Model.DocumentCategoryType))%>
        <%}else{%>
            <%=Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.DocumentCategoryType, Model.DocumentCategoryTypeList) %>
        <%}%>