"Remembering" a selection in a <select> list in Razor

May 19, 2012 | "Remembering" a selection in a <select> list in Razor | 61247 hit(s)

I'm just recording this for now, possibly for later investigation. In ASP.NET Web Pages 2 (Razor), you can take advantage of conditional attributes to set or clear attributes like selected and checked. These attributes don't need a value, they just need to exist, like this:

<select>
  <option value="1">One</option>
  <option value="2" selected >Two</option>
  <option value="3">Three</option>
</select>

So how do you "remember" a list selection after a form submit? Here's one way. This seems a bit kludgy, but I can't offhand think of a way to do this without using JavaScript or something.

< select name="NumberList">
  <option 
   selected=@(Request.Form["NumberList"] == "1")
   value="1">One</option>
  <option 
    selected=@(Request.Form["NumberList"] == "2")                
    value="2">Two</option>
  <option 
    selected=@(Request.Form["NumberList"] == "3")
    value="3">Three</option>                    
</select>

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