How to return select option value? - asp.net-mvc

Question

This is my Html
<div class="form-row">
<div class="col-md-3">
<div class="position-relative form-group">
<label class="">Status</label>
<select class="form-control" id="txtStatus" name="Status">
<option value="A">Active</option>
<option value="I">Inactive</option>
</select>
</div>
</div>
</div>
how to do something like this is asp.net mvc?
<option value="A" <%if Status="A" then%>Selected
<%end if%>>Active</option>
<option value="I" <%if Status="I" then%>Selected
<%end if%>>Inactive</option>
#Model.Status is my value.
How to Do like this :
<option value="A" <%if #Model.Status="A" then%>Selected
<%end if%>>Active</option>

Answer 1

The proper way to do is to use the #Html.DropDownListFor helper method. In the Model we need to introduce a property for available statuses that can be selected.
public class ViewModel
{
public string Status { get;set;}
public IEnumerable<SelectListItem> Statuses { get;set;}
public ViewModel()
{
Statuses= new List<SelectListItem>
{
new SelectListItem {Text = "-- Select Status --", Value = ""},
new SelectListItem {Text = "Active", Value = "A"},
new SelectListItem {Text = "InActive", Value = "I"}
};
}
}
and in view then we can write :
#Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.Status, Model.Statuses,
new { #class ="form-control" , id ="txtStatus"})
It will generate html something similar to :
<select class="form-control" id="txtStatus" name="Status">
<option value="A">Active</option>
<option value="I">Inactive</option>
</select>
UPDATE:
You can do with plain html like:
<option value="A" #(Model.Status =="A" ? "selected" : "")>Active</option>
<option value="I" #(Model.Status =="I" ? "selected" : "")>Inactive</option>