Initializing select with AngularJS and ng-repeat

ghz 1years ago ⋅ 4004 views

Question

I'm trying to get select-box to start off with a pre-filled option using ng- repeat with AngularJS 1.1.5. Instead the select always starts out with nothing selected. It also has an empty option, which I don't want. I think that there is a side effect of nothing being selected.

I can get this working using ng-options instead of ng-repeat, but I want to use ng-repeat for this case. Although my narrowed down example doesn't show it, I also want to set the title attribute of each option, and there is no way to do that using ng-options, as far as I know.

I don't think this is related to the common AngularJs scope/prototypical inheritance issue. At least I don't see anything obvious when inspecting in Batarang. Plus, when you pick an option in the select with the UI, the model does update correctly.

Here's the HTML:

<body ng-app ng-controller="AppCtrl">
    <div>
        Operator is: {{filterCondition.operator}}
    </div>
    <select ng-model="filterCondition.operator">
       <option 
           ng-repeat="operator in operators" 
           value="{{operator.value}}"
       >
           {{operator.displayName}}
       </option>
    </select>
</body>

And the JavaScript:

function AppCtrl($scope) {

    $scope.filterCondition={
        operator: 'eq'
    }

    $scope.operators = [
        {value: 'eq', displayName: 'equals'},
        {value: 'neq', displayName: 'not equal'}
     ]
}

JS Fiddle for this : http://jsfiddle.net/coverbeck/FxM3B/2/

Answer

OK. If you don't want to use the correct way ng-options, you can add ng- selected attribute with a condition check logic for the option directive to to make the pre-select work.

<select ng-model="filterCondition.operator">
    <option ng-selected="{{operator.value == filterCondition.operator}}"
            ng-repeat="operator in operators"
            value="{{operator.value}}">
      {{operator.displayName}}
    </option>
</select>

**[Working Demo](http://jsfiddle.net/dCFd2/)**

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