How to fill dropdown list statically in MVC3

Question

How to fill dropdown list statically(Hardcoded)

I have 2 items

Text="Active" value="A"

Text="InActive" value="I"

and above values saved into database

Thanks,

Answer 1

If you want to do this all in a view, the code would look like this:

@{
Dictionary<string, string> dictionary = new Dictionary<string, string>();
        dictionary.Add("Active", "A");
        dictionary.Add("InActive", "I");
        SelectList list = new SelectList(dictionary, "value", "key");
}
@Html.DropDownList("name", list)

Also if you wanted to add a blank, it would look like this:

@{
Dictionary<string, string> dictionary = new Dictionary<string, string>();
        dictionary.Add("", "");
        dictionary.Add("Active", "A");
        dictionary.Add("InActive", "I");
        SelectList list = new SelectList(dictionary, "value", "key");
}
@Html.DropDownList("name", list)

And if you wanted to have a particular item selected, it would look like this:

@{
Dictionary<string, string> dictionary = new Dictionary<string, string>();
        dictionary.Add("", "");
        dictionary.Add("Active", "A");
        dictionary.Add("InActive", "I");
        SelectList list = new SelectList(dictionary, "value", "key", "I");
}
@Html.DropDownList("name", list)

Notice I changed the SelectList line adding a "I" parameter, this corresponds to the 'InActice' value causing it to be selected on page load.

This code would generate this in HTML:

<select id="name" name="name">
    <option value="A">Active</option>
    <option selected="selected" value="I">InActive</option>
</select>

So if this is going to be static you can just use this. You can remove the selected="selected" if needed.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "above values saved into database", do you have a model to go with these items? If you edit your question and add some examples of what your trying to do I can help you better.