DropDownListFor - does not select “Selected” value

Question

Another one of these questions regarding DropDownListFor not selecting the \"Selected\" value. Here is code:

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Answer 1

Ok, let's discuss about your example, when PermissionId was int. You posted model of type CreateEditAccountModel to view. When you created this model, PermissionId equal 0 (default value of int). And DropDownListFor in view get this value. Therefore you had no selected values. When you used string type, default value of PermissionId was null, therefore `DropDownListFor taken default value of SelectList.

In this case it's better to use int? or Nullable type for PermissionId.