title: How can I get this ASP.NET MVC SelectList to work?
body: <p>I create a selectList in my controller, to display in the view.</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to create it on the fly, sorta thing .. like this...</p>
  
  <pre><code>myViewData.PageOptionsDropDown = 
     new SelectList(new [] {"10", "15", "25", "50", "100", "1000"}, "15");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It compiles, but the output is bad...</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select id="PageOptionsDropDown" name="PageOptionsDropDown"&gt;
      &lt;option&gt;10&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option&gt;15&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option&gt;25&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option&gt;50&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option&gt;100&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option&gt;1000&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Notice how no item is selected?</strong></p>
  
  <p>How can I fix this??</p>