How to get DropDownList selected Text

Question

How to get selected text from a dropdownlist?

@azzedinehtmlsql .DropDownListFor(x => x.organizationsPid, Model.organizationNames, new { @id="organizationNames", , new { @id="organizationNames", @class = "form-select" })

example dropdownlist value is:

OrganizationName OrganizationsPid
test 1
testagain 2

Answer 1

the browser only posts the selected value. so if you are using model binding, on post back model.organizationsPid is the selected value. to get the text, you implement a function that maps the value to the text. if on post back, you rebuild Model.organizationNames (as on post back it will be null), then its:

var text = model.organizationNames.FirstOrDefault(r =>r == model.organizationsPid);