Adding a css class to select using @Html.DropDownList()

Question

I\'m building my first MVC application after years of doing webforms, and for some reason I am not able to make this work:

@Html.DropDownList(\"PriorityID\"         


        

Answer 1

You can simply do this:

@Html.DropDownList("PriorityID", null, new { @class="form-control"})

Answer 2

Try This

 @Html.DropDownList("Id", null, new { @class = "ct-js-select ct-select-lg" })

Answer 3

Simply Try this

@Html.DropDownList("PriorityID", (IEnumerable<SelectListItem>)ViewBag.PriorityID,  new { @class="dropdown" })

But if you want a default value or no option value then you must have to try this one, because String.Empty will select that no value for you which will work as a -select- as default option

@Html.DropDownList("PriorityID", (IEnumerable<SelectListItem>)ViewBag.PriorityID, String.Empty, new { @class="dropdown" })

Answer 4

You Can do it using jQuery

  $("select").addClass("form-control")

here, Select is- html tag, Form-control is- class name

 @Html.DropDownList("SupplierId", "Select Supplier")

and here, SupplierId is ViewBagList, Select Supplier is - Display Name

Answer 5

Looking at the controller, and learing a bit more about how MVC actually works, I was able to make sense of this.

My view was one of the auto-generated ones, and contained this line of code:

@Html.DropDownList("PriorityID", string.Empty)

To add html attributes, I needed to do something like this:

@Html.DropDownList("PriorityID", (IEnumerable<SelectListItem>)ViewBag.PriorityID, new { @class="dropdown" })

Thanks again to @Laurent for your help, I realise the question wasn't as clear as it could have been...

UPDATE:

A better way of doing this would be to use DropDownListFor where possible, that way you don't rely on a magic string for the name attribute

@Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.PriorityID, (IEnumerable<SelectListItem>)ViewBag.PriorityID, new { @class = "dropdown" })

Answer 6

There are some options in constructors look, if you don't have dropdownList and you wanna insert CSS class you can use like

@Html.DropDownList("Country", null, "Choose-Category", new {@class="form-control"})

in this case Country is the name of your dropdown, null is for you aren't passing any generic list from your controller "Choose-Category" is selected item and last one in CSS class if you don't wanna select any default option so simple replace "Choose-Category" with ""