How to set selected select option in Handlebars template

Answer 1

Today I was also facing the same problem I'm creating a Content Management System and to fetch the status of the post I stuck and in searching for a solution, I landed on this page I found a few answers relevant Because I'm using server-side data and when I used document.createElement it is throwing error document is not defined.

The Regex solution worked for me but I want an easy to understand one whether it is verbose so I came with this solution.

 Handlebars.registerHelper('getValue', function(value, options) {
   if(options.fn(this).indexOf(value) >= 1){
         return `selected='selected'`;
      }
});

in the template use the code in this way