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Asked: 2026-05-24T06:20:27+00:00

I’m attempting to get a dropdown list to select the correct value when the

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I’m attempting to get a dropdown list to select the correct value when the page loads. 

@Html.DropDownList("CounterpartyTypeSelect", new SelectList(ViewBag.CounterpartyTypeOptions, "DefaultId", "Value"), new { @class = "selectbox", selected = Model.CounterpartyType })

However, when the page renders it always selects the first value in the dropdown list.

Screenshot of the page

The html source for the page:

    <select class="selectbox" id="CounterpartyTypeSelect" name="CounterpartyTypeSelect" selected="977980f2-ebb2-4c2a-92c2-4ecdc89b248d">
        <option value="5802239e-c601-4f1e-9067-26321213f6e6">Societa per Azioni (SpA)</option>
        <option value="f8160341-4a69-436f-9882-4da31a78f1d5">Gesellschaft mit beshrankter Haftung (GmbH)</option>
        <option value="977980f2-ebb2-4c2a-92c2-4ecdc89b248d">Sociedad Anonima (SA)</option>
        <option value="cdbeb1d3-301b-4884-b65a-612ddd8306f3">Private Limited Company (Ltd)</option>
        <option value="1fe68d96-f31b-4859-9869-8c76a5eb1508">Corporation (Inc)</option>
        <option value="9c9e5722-ab59-4d1c-a0a3-91b42a3ee721">Limitada (LTDA)</option>
        <option value="0cb57339-8705-4e3a-8f6a-95e9664962b7">Public Limited Company (Plc)</option>
        <option value="0924d6f1-06a9-49a3-ac05-b3e2686a0e92">Partnership</option>
        <option value="c8fbe021-a8f7-4e9d-ab38-dbeb5af5a631">Limited Liability Company (LLC)</option>
        <option value="30d9e22b-34f5-43c5-8471-e614dbedb6a6">Aktiengesellschaft(AG)</option>
    </select>

As you can see it is putting the “selected” attribute into the outer select tag instead of on the option that matches the Id. I have another select with identical parameters (except variable names of course) and it renders correctly this way. I do not want to use DropDownListFor<T> because I have a HiddenFor field that actually submits this value in the form and javascript that sets the value to match the Select choice. I’ve confirmed my database is storing the values that I set correctly. What is going on?

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  1. Editorial Team

    SelectList() has an overload for you to choose the selected item. You are adding it as an HTML attribute in the helper and those get rendered to the parent select tag.

    Do this:

    @Html.DropDownList("CounterpartyTypeSelect", new SelectList(ViewBag.CounterpartyTypeOptions, "DefaultId", "Value", Model.CounterpartyType), new { @class = "selectbox" })

    Use the overload for SelectList that takes four arguments:

    new SelectList(IEnumerable items, string dataValueField, string dataTextField, object selectedValue);
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