Adding a css class to select using Html DropDownList

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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   String Empty  new   class  textbox       Error message   System Web Mvc HtmlHelper lt SPDR Models Bug gt   does not contain a definition for DropDownList and the best extension method overload System Web Mvc Html SelectExtensions DropDownList System Web Mvc HtmlHelper  string  System Collections Generic IEnumerable lt System Web Mvc SelectListItem gt   object  has some invalid arguments  Any help greatly appreciated

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Try This    Html DropDownList  Id   null  new    class    ct-js-select ct-select-lg

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Simply Try this   Html DropDownList  PriorityID    IEnumerable lt SelectListItem gt  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 lt SelectListItem gt  ViewBag PriorityID  String Empty  new    class  dropdown

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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

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Try this    Html DropDownList       country        new             new SelectListItem     Value    IN   Text    India             new SelectListItem     Value    US   Text    United States                 Country       new    class    form-control   selected   Model Country

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You can simply do this     Html DropDownList  PriorityID   null  new    class  form-control

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If you are add more than argument ya dropdownlist in Asp Net MVC  When you Edit record or pass value in view bag   Use this it will be work -   Html DropDownList  CurrencyID  null String Empty  new    class    form-control-mandatory

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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

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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 lt SelectListItem gt  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   gt  x PriorityID   IEnumerable lt SelectListItem gt  ViewBag PriorityID  new    class    dropdown

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As the signature from the error message implies  the second argument must be an IEnumerable  more specifically  an IEnumerable of SelectListItem  It is the list of choices  You can use the SelectList type  which is a IEnumerable of SelectListItem  For a list with no choices    Html DropDownList  PriorityID   new List lt SelectListItem gt     new   class  textbox       For a list with a few choices    Html DropDownList       PriorityID        new List lt SelectListItem gt                  new SelectListItem   Text    High   Value   1             new SelectListItem   Text    Low    Value   0                new   class  textbox      Maybe this tutorial can be of help  How to create a DropDownList with ASP NET MVC

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Try below code    Html DropDownList  ProductTypeID  null    new    class    form-control

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