html.dropdownlistfor

I have a dropDownList in my view, it is populating from clients table, the table contains columns like first_name , last_name , id etc., Now I want to show the first_name and last_name as display text and id as value in drop down list, I'm done with id as value and first_name as display text, but here I want to combine those columns ( first_name and last_name ) and use as display text. in model function getClients() { $Clients = Client::model()->findAll(); $list = CHtml::listData($Clients , 'client_id', 'first_name'); return $list; } in view echo $form->dropDownList($model,'client_id',$model-

I am new to MVC (I am moving over from the dark side of traditional ASP.Net) and I know that SO is more of a "why doesn't this work" but, being new to MVC, I just wanted to ask how something is achieved - I don't really have any code or markup because I don't know how at the moment. Right, using an analogous example... I have a form that has a drop-down of a list of "Widgets" (have that working, thanks to SO) ... and then there are other fields (Length/Height/Width) which have "default" values. When the form displays, the Drop-Down is shown but the form fields of L/H/W are empty/disabled until

Question: I need to create a dropdownlist like this: <select id="ddCustomers" data-placeholder="Choose a customer" class="chzn-select" style="width:350px;" tabindex="1" multiple> Now I can add custom attributes like this: @Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.Id, Model.Values, new { @disabled = "disabled" }) Unfortunately, if there is a "-" in the variable name, then it doesn't compile. @Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.Id, Model.Values, new { @disabled = "disabled", @data-placeholder = "whatever" }) And what about the multiple, which has no attribute value ? If I pass a Dictionary or a NameValueColletion

I would like to build an empty Dropdownlistfor to received the results of a previous Dropdownlisfor selection: The actual view: <div id="makes"> @Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.Make_Id, Model.MakeList, HeelpResources.DropdownlistMakeFirstRecord) </div> <div id="models"> @Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.Model_Id, Model.ModelList, HeelpResources.DropdownlistModelFirstRecord) </div> The actual Controller (to work I had to build an empty SelectedList but it seems strange to have to do this): public virtual ActionResult Create() { // Build the Dropdownlist for the Makes var makesDto = _makeService

I am trying to disable or enable a dropdownlistfor in my mvc application based on model property:- what I am doing is :- @Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.ParentOrganisationID, new SelectList(Model.ParentOrganisations, "ID", "Name", Model.ParentOrganisationID), new { @id = "ddlParentOrganisations", @class = "form-control css-select", @disabled = Model.IsReadOnly ? "disabled" : "false", @style = "width:40%; height:10%;" }) but even if model property "model.IsReadOnly" is false, then also it is showing the dropdown as disabled. Please suggest how to handle this, without using any javascript Thanks in

I know there are quite a few questions floating on this but I'm still not sure what to do. I have a HTML form called "CuisineForm", after the user selects the type of cuisine, the AJAX sends the form to the server. The AJAX call works fine, and server responds with a JSON responsewhich contains all the serving times of this particular cuisine. These serving times are divided into Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. These times need to be populated into 3 separate dropdowns in the same form. but I don't really know how to process the JSON results to populate the 3 dropdowns in the form. Here is the