How to generate dropdownlist in asp.net MVC razor

Question

In my razor I am generating dropdown list like this.

    @{
        var listItems = new List 
        { 
              new ListItem { Text =          


        

Answer 1

Use it like this

@Html.DropDownList("Direction", new SelectList(listItems , "Value" , "Text"),new {onchange = "getAlldata()"})