Question

I have this code in my view. I need to display the selected value that is comming from the database in the Dropdownlist.

<select id="PeopleClass" name="PeopleClass">
    <option value="1">Name1</option>
    <option value="2">Name2</option>
    <option value="3">Name3</option>
</select>

Now I am getting default as Name1 but what ever the database value I am coming I need to display in the view?

Can anybody help me out?

Answer 1

DropDownListFor is the method you can use: check this for more details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.html.selectextensions.dropdownlistfor.aspx

I would suggest you Create

<select id="PeopleClass" name="PeopleClass">
    <option value="1">Name1</option>
    <option value="2">Name2</option>
    <option value="3">Name3</option>
</select>

into a IEnumerable<SelectListItem> and bind it when you render your view with your selected value from database.

// create People class
public class People{
     public value {get; set}
     public name {get; set}
}
//Create option list for your dropdown
List<People> peopleList= 
new List<People>{ new People{ value="1", name ="Name 1"}, new People{ value="2", name ="Name 2"}, new People{ value="3", name ="Name 3"}};
//bind it with ViewData
ViewData["ddl"] = new SelectList(peopleList, "value", "name", valueFromDatabase ); 

lastly in your view, bind the dropdown list with ViewData["ddl"]

<%=Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.People,(IEnumerable<SelectListItem>)ViewData["ddl"])%>