How to set preselected value in ng-option?

Question

I have id from the city that is supposed to be selected in dropdown list, but I can`t manage to preselect it. Should I select it from directive or is there any other way?

<select  ng-model="cityId" ng-options="city.name for city in cities"></select>

Answer 1

Edit your ng-options to this:

city.id as city.name for city in cities

if you fetch the cities and don't know the ID's you could say in your javascript success function (which returns the cities):

$scope.cityId = the_cities[0].ID

to set the first as selected Else you could just say:

$scope.cityId = 1; //or anything that exists