DropDownListFor, selected = true doesn't work

Question

Select doesn\'t work for me with DropDownListFor. Can anyone help me?

I have musiccategories and artists that belong to one musiccategory. On my page I want to show

Answer 1

Maybe it has something to do with the way you populate your selec list items or your model.

You can take a look at this post :

How can I reuse a DropDownList in several views with .NET MVC

Answer 2

DropDownListFor, selected = true doesn't work

Yup.

But I can't make one specified option in the drop down list selected, the first option is always selected at first.

When you use

// I don't recommend using the variable `model` for the lambda
Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.<MyId>, <IEnumerable<SelectListItem>> ...

MVC Ignores .selected and instead verifies the m.<MyId> value against the values in <IEnumerable<SelectListItem>>.

public class DropDownModel
{
    public int ID3 {  get; set; }
    public int ID4 { get; set; }
    public int ID5 { get; set; }
    public IEnumerable<SelectListItem> Items { get; set; }
}

public ActionResult Index()
{
    var model = new DropDownModel
    {
        ID3 = 3,  // Third
        ID4 = 4,  // Second
        ID5 = 5,  // There is no "5" so defaults to "First"
        Items = new List<SelectListItem>
        {
            new SelectListItem { Text = "First (Default)", Value = "1" },
            new SelectListItem { Text = "Second (Selected)", Value = "2", Selected = true },
            new SelectListItem { Text = "Third", Value = "3" },
            new SelectListItem { Text = "Forth", Value = "4" },
        }
    };
    return View(model);
}

<div>@Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.ID3, Model.Items)</div>
<div>@Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.ID4, Model.Items)</div>
<div>@Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.ID5, Model.Items)</div>

Result:

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