How do you bind the value in DropDownList using MVC?

1. We have created a list of SelectListItems inside the "BindingDropDown" method and passed it to the View. ssed it to the View.

List<SelectListItem> items = new List<SelectListItem>();
items.Add(new SelectListItem
{
    Text = "item1",
    Value = "1"               
});
items.Add(new SelectListItem
{
    Text = "item2",
    Value = "2"                
});

ViewData["ListItems"] = items;//This will be used to bind to Dropdownlist

Binding Drop down at View

a. We can bind the dropdown list using html.Dropdownlist (it is a HTML helper class).

ListItems: <%= Html.DropDownList("ListItems")%>

Here we are passing "ListItems" that has been passed from the controller to the view.

b. Another overloaded method of the html.DropdownList class for binding a dropdown list.

<%= Html.DropDownList("SelectedItem", (IEnumerable<SelectListItem>)ViewData["ListItems"])%>

After run, u will get dropdown list with 2 items

see below link for drop down list

http://forums.asp.net/t/1946767.aspx?MVC+4+how+to+populate+drop+down+value+using+html+dropdownlistfor[^]

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/4d9083/creating-simple-cascading-dropdownlist-in-mvc-4-using-razor/[^]

http://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2012/12/13/how-to-simple-html-dropdownlistfor-mvc-net/[^]

The below links are best to understand the binding for html dropdown list in razor in MVC
Bind DropdownList[^]

Binding Dropdown C#[^]