Selected Dropdown using HTML Helpers in mvc 4

Question

I need to select the dropdown in html helper. I pass my data in IEnumerable using ViewData please some one help me how to select it with value.

My Code is

Answer 1

If the property your binding to is named BrandMaster then it should be

@Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.BrandMaster, ViewData["Brand"] as IEnumerable, new { @class = "form-control Repeat TableMust"})

If the value of BrandMaster matches the value of one of the SelectList items, then it will be selected by default.

Always use the strongly types helpers!

Edit

To use create a dropdown for the property of a collection, you need to use a custom EditorTemplate for your model

public class MyModel
{
  public int BrandMaster { get; set; }
  public string AnotherProperty { get; set; }
}

MyModel.cshtml (in Views/Shared/EditorTemplates

@model MyModel
@Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.BrandMaster, ViewData["Brand"] as IEnumerable, new { @class = "form-control Repeat TableMust"})
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.AnotherProperty)

Main View

@model IEnumerable
@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
  @Html.EditorFor(m => m, new { Brand = ViewData["Brand"])
  ....
}