how to use ng-option to set default value of select element

Question

I\'ve seen the documentation of the Angular select directive here: http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.directive:select. I can\'t figure how to set the default value. This is

Answer 1

Really simple if you do not care about indexing your options with some numeric id.

1. Declare your $scope var - people array

   $scope.people= ["", "YOU", "ME"];
   

2. In the DOM of above scope, create object

3. In your controller, you set your ng-model "hired".

   $scope.hired = "ME";
   

Good luck!!! It's really easy!