ASP.net MVC DropDownList Pre-Selected item ignored

Question

I am facing a simular problem as outlined in the question \"Html.DropDownList in ASP.NET MVC RC (refresh) not pre-selecting item\"

I\'m using ASP.net MVC 1.0 and need to

Answer 1

Unfortunately i'm not at work so i can't get the actual code. However, I accomplished this by writing the javascript event as an html attribute in the Controller, then passed it along in the ViewData.

When you write the code:

<%=Html.DropDownList("SelectList", (SelectList)ViewData["SelectList"], [htmlAttribute])

Basically in the Controller you would write the htmlattribute and assign it in the dropdownlist method.