Question

So in my view I am dynamically creating dropdown lists in a for loop. I use the same name value in unique id values.

@foreach(var item in Model.Items)
{
   @Html.DropDownList("Items" Model.GenerateSelectList(item.id), new { id = item.id })
}

In my controller action method for the post I can get the values of the dropdowns like this:

[HttpPost]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
[Authorize]
public ActionResult ClassicLineup(IList<int> items)
{
}

I cannot figure out how to get BOTH the dropdown id and associated value.

Seems like it should be simple but it has me stumped…

Thanks.

Answer 1

I just ended up looping through the forms collection and parsing the dropdown id (form.key) and the dropdown value (form.key.value).

Apparently there is not an easy way to have MVC bind the dropdown values and id to a collection in the controller action parameter.