Question

In my controller I use the following:

ViewBag.ReferenceId = new SelectList(_reference.Get("00")
   .AsEnumerable()
   .OrderBy(o => o.Order), "RowKey", "Value", "00");

Then in my view I use the following extension to create a dropdown:

@Html.DropDownList("ReferenceID", 
   null, 
   new { 
     id = "ReferenceID", 
     @class = "combobox2", 
     style="width: 150px;"
   }
)

Now I would like to change this to create an unordered list. Something like the following:

<ul id="categories" class="pane list">
   <li><a href="#">Websites</a></li>
   <li><a href="#">Web Design</a></li>
   <li><a href="#">Print</a></li>
</ul>

Is there any MVC extension that can do this for me or is there an easy way I can code something?

Answer 1

There is no equivalent, though you could write it on your own like this:

tagsList = "<ul>{0}</ul>";
tagsListItem = "<li>{0}</li>";
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
list.ForEach(listItem => result.AppendFormat(tagsListItem, item.ToString()));
return string.Format(tagsList, result.ToString());

And you could fit the code for your needs (like adding additional tags, attributes etc.)