Angular 2 - Setting selected value on dropdown list

Angular 2 simple dropdown selected value

It may help someone as I need to only show selected value, don't need to declare something in component and etc.

If your status is coming from the database then you can show selected value this way.

<div class="form-group">
    <label for="status">Status</label>
    <select class="form-control" name="status" [(ngModel)]="category.status">
       <option [value]="1" [selected]="category.status ==1">Active</option>
       <option [value]="0" [selected]="category.status ==0">In Active</option>
    </select>
</div>

Setting car.colour to the value you want to have initially selected usually works.

When car.colour is set, you can remove [selected]="car.color.id == x.id".

If the value is not a string [ngValue]="..." must be used. [value]="..." only supports strings.

Thanks for the tip Günter, it got me moving in the right direction. There was a mis-matched spelling of 'color' in my solution which was causing issues and I needed to use 'ngValue' not 'value' in the template html.

Here is the complete solution using objects for the ngModel and select list options and avoiding use of the [selected] attribute.

I have updated the Plunker to show the full working solution. https://plnkr.co/edit/yIVEeLK7PUY4VQFrR48g?p=preview

Component template

 <div>
        <label>Colour</label>
        <div *ngIf="car != null">
            <select [(ngModel)]="car.colour">
                <option *ngFor="let x of colours" [ngValue]="x" >{{x.name}}</option>
            </select>
        </div>
    </div>

Component

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import {AbstractControl,FORM_DIRECTIVES } from '@angular/common';

@Component({
    selector:'dropdown',
    templateUrl:'app/components/dropdown/dropdown.component.html',
    directives:[FORM_DIRECTIVES]
})
export class DropdownComponent implements OnInit
{
    car:Car;
    colours: Array<Colour>;

    ngOnInit(): void {

        this.colours = Array<Colour>();
        this.colours.push(new Colour(-1, 'Please select'));
        this.colours.push(new Colour(1, 'Green'));
        this.colours.push(new Colour(2, 'Pink'));

        this.car = new Car();
        this.car.colour = this.colours[1];        
    }
}

export class Car  
{
    colour:Colour;
}

export class Colour
{
    constructor(id:number, name:string) {
        this.id=id;
        this.name=name;
    }

    id:number;
    name:string;
}