Optgroup drop-down support in MVC - Problems with Model Binding

Question

I wonder if anyone can shed some light on this problem..

I\'ve got an option group drop-down for selecting a person\'s ethnicity – however it’s not storing the value in

Answer 1

Your select doesn't have a name attribute and so when you submit the form the selected value is not sent to the server. You need to add a name:

select.GenerateId(name);
select.MergeAttribute("name", name);