MVC DropDownList SelectedValue not displaying correctly

Question

I tried searching and didn\'t find anything that fixed my problem. I have a DropDownList on a Razor view that will not show the the item that I have marked as Selected in th

Answer 1

Make Sure that your return Selection Value is a String and not and int when you declare it in your model.

Example:

public class MyModel
{
    public string StatusID { get; set; }
}