How do I set the value property in AngularJS' ng-options?
Asked 07 September, 2021
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Here is what seems to be bothering a lot of people (including me).

When using the ng-options directive in AngularJS to fill in the options for a <select> tag, I cannot figure out how to set the value for an option. The documentation for this is really unclear - at least for a simpleton like me.

I can set the text for an option easily like so:

ng-options="select p.text for p in resultOptions"

When resultOptions is for example:

[
    {
        "value": 1,
        "text": "1st"
    },
    {
        "value": 2,
        "text": "2nd"
    }
]

It should be (and probably is) the most simple thing to set the option values, but so far I just don't get it.

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