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

Instead of using the new 'track by' feature you can simply do this with an array if you want the values to be the same as the text:

Note the difference between the standard syntax, which will make the values the keys of the Object/Array, and therefore 0,1,2 etc. for an array:

k as v becomes v as v.

I discovered this just based on common sense looking at the syntax. (k,v) is the actual statement that splits the array/object into key value pairs.

In the 'k as v' statement, k will be the value, and v will be the text option displayed to the user. I think 'track by' is messy and overkill.