Html.dropdownlist with static content
Solution 1
Your first option is to include the html within your view:
<select id="selection">
<option>Exact match</option>
<option>Starts with</option>
</select>
Second option is to use a hard-coded built in html helper:
@Html.DropDownList("selection", new List<SelectListItem>() {new SelectListItem { Text="Exact match", Value = "Match"}, new SelectListItem { Text="Starts With", Value = "Starts"}})
The third option which I would prefer if it is used a lot on your site is to create an html helper extension and you can simply use it like this:
@Html.SearchSelectionList()
Here is the code for this:
public static MvcHtmlString SearchSelectionList(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper)
{
return htmlHelper.DropDownList("selection", new List<SelectListItem>() { new SelectListItem { Text = "Exact match", Value = "Match" }, new SelectListItem { Text = "Starts With", Value = "Starts" } });
}
Solution 2
Why do you need the HTML-helper when only using static data?
<select id="myDropDownList" name="myDropDownList">
<option value="volvo">Volvo</option>
<option value="saab">Saab</option>
<option value="mercedes">Mercedes</option>
<option value="audi">Audi</option>
</select>
Or this perhaps:
@{
var list = new SelectList(new []
{
new {ID="1", Name="volvo"},
new {ID="2", Name="saab"},
new {ID="3", Name="mercedes"},
new {ID="4", Name="audi"},
},
"ID", "Name", 1);
}
@Html.DropDownList("list", list)
Solution 3
you can refer this Bind Dropdownlist In Mvc4 Razor
Let's try this way also
public static class DDLHelper
{
public static IList<SelectListItem> GetGender()
{
IList<SelectListItem> _result = new List<SelectListItem>();
_result.Add(new SelectListItem { Value = "2", Text = "Male" });
_result.Add(new SelectListItem { Value = "1", Text = "Female" });
return _result;
}
}
Now call static class in Controller
public ActionResult Index()
{
ViewBag.Gender = new SelectList(DDLHelper.GetGender(), "Value", "Text");
return View();
}
In last now ViewBag call in view
@Html.DropDownList("gender", new SelectList(ViewBag.Gender, "Value", "Text"), "--Select--")
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john Gu
Updated on November 29, 2020Comments
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john Gu over 3 years
I am working on an asp.net mvc web application , and on my advance search page i want to have three
html.dropdownlist
which contain static values:-Exact match
Start With
and i need the dropdownlists to be beside any of the search field.
so can any one advice how i can create such static
html.dropdownlist
, as all the current dropdownlists which i have are bing populated with dynamic data from my model ?Thanks