Adding a css class to select using @Html.DropDownList()

Question

I\'m building my first MVC application after years of doing webforms, and for some reason I am not able to make this work:

@Html.DropDownList(\"PriorityID\"         


        

Answer 1

Simply Try this

@Html.DropDownList("PriorityID", (IEnumerable)ViewBag.PriorityID,  new { @class="dropdown" })

But if you want a default value or no option value then you must have to try this one, because String.Empty will select that no value for you which will work as a -select- as default option

@Html.DropDownList("PriorityID", (IEnumerable)ViewBag.PriorityID, String.Empty, new { @class="dropdown" })