I've a view that displays list structure for the documents uploaded. However, this needs to change to create dropdownlist instead of list. below code creates list
@foreach (var item in Model)
{
<tr>
<td>@Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.FileId)</td>
<td>@Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.FileName)</td>
<td>@Html.ActionLink("Download", "Download", new { id=item.FileId})</td>
</tr>
}
This needs to be changed to create a dropdownlist, how can I do that?
You can also use with this
In controller
Public Actionresult HomeController()
{
// your code goes here
//create list of content you want to display on dropdown list
//you can pass it on 2 ways 1. with model pass and 2.is with viewbag
Viewbag.countryList = listofCountry;
}
In View
Method1 with Model
<select>
@foreach(var item in Model)
{
<option value="@item.FileId">@ietm.FileName</option>
}
</select>
Method 2.
<select>
@foreach(var item in Viewbag.countryList)
{
<option value="@item.FileId">@ietm.FileName</option>
}
</select>
There are multiple ways to render a dropdown list from a collection.
Here is how you do it with DropDownList helper
@Html.DropDownList("MySelect",new SelectList(Model,"FileId","FileName"))
This will render a SELECT element with name and Id attribute values set to "MySelect" and the options text will be the FileName and value will be the FileId.
You can use this sample.
@Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.FileId, model.FileItems.Select(x => new SelectListItem { Text = x.FileName, Value = x.FileId })
