How do I set the value property in AngularJS' ng-options?

Question

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 &

Answer 1

How the value attributes gets its value:

• When using an array as datasource, it will be the index of the array element in each iteration;
• When using an object as datasource, it will be the property name in each iteration.

So in your case it should be:

obj = { '1': '1st', '2': '2nd' };