MVC DropDownlist not showing selected value

Question

I am working with MVC and trying to show dropdownlist with some value selected.

 ViewData["History"] = new List<SelectListItem>() { new SelectListItem() { Text = "Never", Value = "-1" }, new SelectListItem() { Selected=true, Text = "7", Value = "7"},
                                            new SelectListItem(){ Text="14", Value="14"},new SelectListItem(){ Text="Forever", Value="999"}};

And in my View code

<p>
<label>History</label>
<%= System.Web.Mvc.Html.SelectExtensions.DropDownList(Html, "History", (IEnumerable<SelectListItem>)(ViewData["History"])) %>
</p>

Dropdown is rendered correctly, but selected value is not shown. First option is selected by default.

How to make selected option work ?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:57:03Z

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After writing this question I was looking for answers. But I found this post : DropDownList setting selected item in asp.net MVC

And then I tried making change as re-naming ViewData["History"] to ViewData["HistoryData"] and all of a sudden everything works as expected.

The name of select list and ViewData key should be different.

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:57

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