mvc html.listbox,c# - How to use Html.ListBoxFor with MVC4 - Stack Overflow

you can populate you Model list in you controller action as:

someAction

{

CountryModel objcountrymodel = new CountryModel();

objcountrymodel.CountryList = GetAllCountryList();

return View(objcountrymodel);

}

public SelectList GetAllCountryList()

{

List objcountry = new List();

objcountry.Add(new Country { Id = 1, CountryName = "India" });

objcountry.Add(new Country { Id = 2, CountryName = "USA" });

objcountry.Add(new Country { Id = 3, CountryName = "Pakistan" });

objcountry.Add(new Country { Id = 4, CountryName = "Nepal" });

SelectList objselectlist = new SelectList(objcountry, "Id", "CountryName");

return objselectlist;

}

and in your .cshtml, you may use it as:

@Html.ListBoxFor(m => m.SelectedCountry, new SelectList(Model.CountryList, "Value", "Text", Model.CountryList.SelectedValue), new { @Id = "lstcountry", @style = "width:200px;height:60px;" })

for dealing with lists in view, you need to cast it to SelectList type. and in our example, Country is assumed to be a model for that purpose. (having key and value for selectlist)