Hi

I have a partial view that has something like this

 <%= Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.SelectedProductName, Model.ProductList, "Select a Product") %>

Now you can create a new product and edit a existing product. Both editing and creating use the same form. The create is on the main page on load up. Edit popus up in a jquery u.i model dialog and renders a new partial view.

So as far as the page is concerned is that I have 2 dropdown boxes with the same "id" which is bad since they should be unique. So how do I change the id? So when the edit loads it might have a id of "editSelectedProductName"?

I tried to do this in the view model

public string SelectedProductName{ get; set; }

ViewModelConstructor()
{
  SelectedProductName = "EditSelectedProductName";
}

But it seems to not care and keeps using "SelectedProductName" as the product name.

Thanks