AngularJS problems with ng-options selected value
I'm facing a strange problem when using ng-options with AngularJS. My scenario is pretty straight forward: Bind a value with ng-model to be the selected option Load the values of the 'select' from a backend Bind the loaded values to the 'select' My objects loaded from the backend is a key/value like: { Value: "my_value", Name: "my_name" } And everything works fine... Until Name and Value are the same. Then angular won't bind the selected value correct anymore. I have created this plunker: https://plnkr.co/edit/tUBXIpMTBAHK2Xh8aDu6?p=preview To demonstrate the problem. My controller: var app =