Creating a SelectListItem with the disabled=“disabled” attribute

Question

I\'m not seeing a way to create, via the HtmlHelper, a SelectListItem that will spit out the following HTML:

Answer 1

Clientside option: if you for example give your dropdownlist a class 'custom' and the items that should be unselectable the value -1 (for example), then you can do something like:

$('select.custom option[value=-1]').each(function () {
    $(this).attr("disabled", "disabled");
});