Question

I want to add a dropdownlist in my form, with 2 values userid and username in my dropdownlist, and also I want to get the value selected by the user when I click the button. I’m new to MVC and so far, I have not worked on dropdownlist, tried few samples but nothing seems to be working the way I want.

Answer 1

I’ll jump lots of MVC3 concepts. If you’re really new to ASP.NET MVC, you should take a look at some tutorials.

This code should help you:

VIEW

    @using (Html.BeginForm("ACTION NAME", "CONTROLLER NAME"))
    {
        <select name="select">
            <option value="username" selected>User name</option>
            <option value="userid">User id</option>
        </select>
        <input type="submit" />
    }

ACTION

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult ACTIONNAME(string select)
{
    //...
}

Please, note:

• ACTION NAME and CONTROLLER NAME at the BeginForm helper. You will have to modify this at your code
• The select name (“select”) and the name of the argument at the action (“select”). This is not a coincidence, it’s a convention. MVC uses the name attr to bind data
• The selected attribute at the option will make it the default option

Regards