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I am creating a scaffold - rails g scaffold Contact email:string email_provider:string but I want the email provider to be a drop down (with gmail/yahoo/msn as options) and not a text field. How can I do this ? You can take a look at the Rails documentation . Anyways , in your form : <%= f.collection_select :provider_id, Provider.order(:name),:id,:name, include_blank: true %> As you can guess , you should predefine email-providers in another model - Provider , to have where to select them from . Or for custom options <%= f.select :desired_attribute, ['option1', 'option2']%> You create the

Basically I am looking to insert an item at the beginning of a SelectList with the default value of 0 and the Text Value of " -- Select One --" Something like SelectList list = new SelectList(repository.func.ToList()); ListItem li = new ListItem(value, value); list.items.add(li); Can this be done? There really isn't a need to do this unless you insist on the value of 0. The HtmlHelper DropDownList extension allows you to set an option label that shows up as the initial value in the select with a null value. Simply use one of the DropDownList signatures that has the option label. <%= Html

I want put in a selected list labels the name and surname of people of an EF model. I've tried with this: public ActionResult Insert() { ViewData["accountlist"] = new SelectList(time.Anagrafica_Dipendente.ToList(), "ID_Dipendente", "Surname Name", null); Giustificativi g = new Giustificativi(); return View(g); } but VS returns an error, because there isn't a attribute called "surname name". how can i concat the name and surname in the selectlist label? thanks you could do something like this: ViewData["accountlist"] = new SelectList((from s in time.Anagrafica_Dipendente.ToList() select new {

Does anyone know of a technique to programmatically create an HTML select list including options using JQuery? var arr = [ {val : 1, text: 'One'}, {val : 2, text: 'Two'}, {val : 3, text: 'Three'} ]; var sel = $('<select>').appendTo('body'); $(arr).each(function() { sel.append($("<option>").attr('value',this.val).text(this.text)); }); var s = $('<select/>'); var o = [1, 2, 3]; for (var i in o) { s.append($('<option/>').html(o[i])); } $('body').append(s); I know this is old, but what the hey: $selectBox.html($.map(myArray, function(){ return $('<option/>', {text: this}); })); This is very

There are a couple of posts about this on Stack Overflow but none with an answer that seem to fix the problem in my current situation. I have a page with a table in it, each row has a number of text fields and a dropdown. All the dropdowns need to use the same SelectList data so I have set it up as follows: Controller ViewData["Submarkets"] = new SelectList(submarketRep.AllOrdered(), "id", "name"); View <%= Html.DropDownList("submarket_0", (SelectList)ViewData["Submarkets"], "(none)") %> I have used exactly this setup in many places, but for some reason in this particular view I get the error: