Question

I want to do a drop down list and when I click the submit button, it posts back the selected value.

I don’t know if I’m doing it right but I’ve searched around and came up with this so far.

I just want to know if I’m doing it right and where it would store the value once it posts back.

@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
    @Html.DisplayName("Name:")<br />
    @Html.TextBox("NAME")<br />

    @Html.DisplayName("Password:")<br />
    @Html.TextBox("PASS")<br />

    @Html.DisplayName("Team Name:")<br />
    @Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.Teams, new SelectList(Model.Teams, "value", "TeamNAME"), new {onchange = "submit()"})

    <input type="submit" value="ADD" />
}

Want to get the value here

[HttpPost]
        public ActionResult Index()
        {

            //GET VALUE OF THE SELECTED TEAM HERE
            return RedirectToAction("Index");
        }

Answer 1

It looks pretty close — the only thing is that, you should be consistent in using the model-bound HTML helper methods, or not. That is, use TextBoxFor and DropDownListFor, or TextBox and DropDownList, but don’t mix and match.

If you use the model-bound ones, then you should be able to simply add the model type as a parameter to your postback action:

public ActionResult Index(MyModel postback)

For the unbound ones, you can add parameters individually using their names:

public ActionResult Index(string NAME, string PASS, string TEAM)

(assuming you’d change to @Html.DropDownList("TEAM", new SelectList(Model.Teams, "value", "TeamNAME"), new {onchange = "submit()"}))