Selected Dropdown using HTML Helpers in mvc 4

Question

I need to select the dropdown in html helper. I pass my data in IEnumerable using ViewData please some one help me how to select it with value.

My Code is

Answer 1

When you are building your dropdown list you can select the selected item using Selected property of SelectListItem

myModelCollection = SomeService.GetModels();
var dropdown = myModelCollection.Select(s => new SelectListItem {Value = s.Id, Name = s.Name, Selected = s.Id == YourSelectedValue} ).ToList();