AngularJS - Set default value on select inside a ng-repeat [duplicate]

Answer 1

This is the only way i managed to do it, and its done when another select is changing. (maybe thats the cause other solutions don't work, please note the extra ""+ to force it to be a string. (otherwise not working)

In the controller:

$scope.formData.number_of_persons = "̲"̲+̲ $scope.numberOfPersons[0].val;

HTML:

    
        {{option.val}}