I realize Internet Explorer ignores the disabled attribute, but I'm not seeing a way to create, via the HtmlHelper, a SelectListItem that will spit out the following HTML:

<option disabled="disabled">don't click this</option>

The only properties SelectListItem has are:

new SelectListItem{
  Name = "don't click this",
  Value = string.Empty,
  Selected = false
}

The only option I see is to

1. Subclass the SelectListItem to add an Enabled property to get the value to the view
2. Not use the HTML helper for DropDownList
3. Create a new HtmlHelper extension that accepts my new EnablableSelectList and adds my disabled attribute.