Angular 2 - Setting selected value on dropdown list

Question

I have run into an issue in pre-selecting values on a dropdown list in Angular 2.

I set an array of colours in the component which I bind successfully to the drop

Answer 1

I would like to add, [ngValue]="..." support strings, but you need to add simple quotes if it represents a number, like [ngValue]="'...'". It was to complement the Günter Zöchbauer answer.