Question

This may sound simple but i am stuck up at a very strange problem.

I have created dropdown’s in my application and i am not able to fetch the selected value On Edit.

Here is my View:

<div class="editor-field">
      @Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.Hobbyhome.HobbyHomeAddressList.First().ProvincialState.ProvincialStateID, new SelectList(ViewBag.State, "ProvincialStateID", "ProvincialStateName"), "-----Select State-----", new { @id = "State" })<font color="red">*</font> 
      </div>

i have written a function in controller to fetch the value and i am also able to fetch the value but when it goes in View it doesnot show me the value
i have created another dropdown like this:

  @Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.Hobbydetail.Hobbymaster.HobbyId, new SelectList(ViewBag.Hobby, "HobbyId", "HobbyName"), "----Select Hobby----", new { @id = "Hobby" })<font color="red">*</font> 

And the strange thing is i can see the value of the second dropdown but not for first One

What i think is maybe because i am using an list.First() in the first dropdown and so it isgiving this problem bcoz On edit view page it only shows me “—–Select State–” as value for first dropdown.

Please Help me

Answer 1

To get the “selected value object” in you edit view :

@Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.Hobbydetail.Hobbymaster.HobbyId, 
    new SelectList(ViewBag.Hobby, "HobbyId", "HobbyName", Model.Hobbydetail.Hobbymaster.HobbyId),
    "----Select Hobby----", new { @id = "Hobby" })

To have all elements in your DropDown, be sure that your ViewBag.Hobby is initialized and filled in your controller before showing Edit view!