Question

I want to create this but with additional different values for the displayed options:

<%=Html.DropDownList("", new SelectList(new[] { "Alabama", "Alaska", "American Samoa", "Arizona", "Arkansas", "California", "Colorado", "Connecticut" }))%>

IE. Alabama would be shown but the value of this selection would be AL. And I do not want to use a ViewData.

Answer 1

<%=
    Html.DropDownList("state", new [] { 
        new SelectListItem() {Text = "Alabama", Value = "AL"}, 
        new SelectListItem() {Text = "Alaska", Value = "AK" } 
}) %>