Get the selected text (not value) of select element in angular

angularjs, angularjs-model

Solution

You just need to define your persons object and then you can do whatever you want with it. There are many ways to do it... Here's an example:

HTML

<select ng-model="persons"
    ng-options="p as p.label for p in persons">
</select>

<p ng-repeat="p in persons">
    {{p.value}}: {{p.label}}
</p>

JS

$scope.persons = [
    { value: 'person1', label: 'Anna Smith' },
    { value: 'person2', label: 'Karl Pettersson' },
    { value: 'person3', label: 'Ylvis Russo' }
];

Here is a jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/bKHh8/

UPDATE

Here it is with option tags which don't use angular indices for values (this is exactly what answers your question): http://jsfiddle.net/bKHh8/1/

<select>
     <option ng-repeat="p in persons" value="{{p.value}}">{{p.name}}</option>
</select>

Problem

For example I would like to do something like this: ``` <select ng-model="persons"> <option value="person1">Anna Smith</option> <option value="person2">Karl Pettersson</option> <option value="person3">Ylvis Russo</option> </select> <p ng-view="persons"><p> ``` And having the view display each name when selected in the dropdown rather than it's value. Is it possible? I tried watching the model and assigning a new model the text value with jQuery. However it ended up being complicated so if that's the best way to do it, I small example would be awesome!

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