Pull Down Menu Values

Question

Premise:

Enrollment Create displays and enters the CourseID and StudentID values.

How do I program the pull down menus to display Course Title and Student FirstName LastName rather than the ID properties (but still enter the corresponding ID values required)?

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GitHub: https://github.com/DeanEverhart/ContosoUniversity1

Tutorial: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/data/ef-mvc/intro?view=aspnetcore-6.0

Environment: Net Core 6, Visual Studio Community 2022 (64 bit), WIndows 11

Controller

Create View

Answer 1

The <select> only supports a value and text. So you could show the title

ViewData[“CourseID”] = new SelectList(_context.Courses,”CourseID”,”Title”);

if you want a multi column drop-down you will need to pick a JavaScript control