MVC FormCollection - Dropdown

Sreekanth Reddy

10y6.5k.NET

how to get text and value of dropdown with FormCollection in MVC?

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Rajeev Punhani10y ago
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Hi Srikanth,
You cannot get the text of a dropdown directly in MVC using forms collection.By default the value of dropdown is posted in forms collection,but you can access the same using hidden field.Below is the snippet for the same.
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#city").change(function(){
varcityText=$("#cityoption:selected").text();
$("#hidCity").val(cityText);
});
});
@Html.Hidden("hidCity")
@Html.DropDownList("city",newSelectList(string.Empty,"Value","Text"),"Select",new{style="width:250px",@class="form-control"})
In the controller action you can access the same .
publicActionResultIndex(FormCollectioncollection)
{
varcity=collection["hidCity"];
}
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Rajeev Punhani10y ago
Hi Srikanth,
city is the dropdown name and option:selected will give you selected value from dropdown.There is a space in between them .
#cityoption:selected
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Sreekanth Reddy10y ago
@Rajeev Punhani,
What is "#cityoption" in your example?
Ranjit Powar10y ago
There is no direct way to get text of dropdown in action method. User hidden filed for that.
Raja T10y ago
Hi Srikanth, Please refer below links
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27901175/how-to-get-dropdownlist-selectedvalue-in-controller-in-mvc
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3004788/get-the-selected-drop-down-list-value-from-a-formcollection-in-mvc
http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/96468/Problems-with-dropdown-list-selected-item-asp-mvc