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

You can use ng-options to achieve select tag binding to value and display members

While using this data source

countries : [
              {
                 "key": 1,
                 "name": "UAE"
             },
              {
                  "key": 2,
                  "name": "India"
              },
              {
                  "key": 3,
                  "name": "OMAN"
              }
         ]

you can use the below to bind your select tag to value and name

it works great