I am using a select box from ui-select. All is working fine, but I want to allow manually entered text and do not want to restrict the user from the values available in the
I've forked the ui-select project to allow this functionality through the allow-free-text attribute
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Here is the plnker
Until my pull request is accepted by the angular-ui team, you can get the ui-select build that includes my patch on my own repo