title: How to create dropdownlist Disabled in ASP.NET Razor MVC 5
body: <pre><code>    &lt;div class="form-group"&gt;            
          @Html.LabelFor(model =&gt; model.CourseStatus, new { @class = "control-label col-md-2" })    
          &lt;div class="col-md-10"&gt;
              @Html.DropDownList("statusList", String.Empty, new { @disbled = disabled})
              @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model =&gt; model.CourseStatus)       
          &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am new in ASP.NET MVC5 and RAZOR. I just want to create a disabled dropdownlist. I have already created SelectList name "statusList". Through which I am trying to call the status. but I want to make it disbled and make one status as by default</p>