How to set default value for PrimeNG p-dropdown

Question

I am using PrimeNG in my angular5 app. I have issue with p-dropdown

Question

I have p-dropdown for showing countries. I bind the select options correctly there it works fine (this data coming from api), but I need to set default selected option for this p-dropdown as "India".

I set up ng-model value as India but it didn't work.

my dummy.component.html code

<div class="form-group col-md-2">
    <div>
        <label for="inputEmail4"> Select Country</label>
        <span style="color:red">*</span>
    </div>
    <p-dropdown name="country" [options]="countries" [(ngModel)]="applicant.country" placeholder="select country"
            (onChange)="getStatebyCountry(applicant.country,$event)" #country="ngModel" required>
    </p-dropdown>
    <span *ngIf="country.invalid && (country.dirty || country.touched)">
        <span [hidden]="!country.hasError('required')" style="color:#ffa500">country is mandatory</span>
    </span>
</div>

my dummy.component.ts

export class dummyComponent implements OnInit {
    //variable declaration scope for all controller function
    applicant: any = {};

    country: string; constructor() { }

    ngOnInit() {
        this.applicant.country = 'India';
    } 
    this.countries = [];
    // this.countries.push({ label: 'Select Country', value: '' });
    //getallcountries
    this.UserService.getallcountries().subscribe(result => {
    console.log("countries" + result);
    this.cnt = result;
    for (let i = 0; i <= this.cnt.length; i++) {
        if (this.cnt[i].id === 1) {
            this.countries.push({ label: this.cnt[i].name, value: this.cnt[i].id });
        }
    }
});

Answer 1

This may be caused if PrimeNG doesn't know to which field to bind the "selectedCountry", ie. your "countries" model for the dropdown control has more then key and value properties.

In my case, I had to explicitly "tell" to each dropdown field that the property for values is "value". I used the p-dropdown dataKey property for this.

So, in my dropdown control, I added something like this:

<p-dropdown dataKey="value" ></p-dropdown>

You can read more here.

Answer 2

Try to replace

this.applicant.country = 'India';

with

this.applicant = {country: 'India'};

Edit

Display your p-dropdown once you got the data from your API.

<div *ngIf="dataLoaded">
  <p-dropdown [options]="countries" [(ngModel)]="applicant.country"></p-dropdown>
</div>

See Plunker

Answer 3

You can set default value of PrimeNG Dropdown by using ngModel as shown on the following approach:

component.html:

<p-dropdown [options]="cities" name="selectedCity" [(ngModel)]="selectedCity"></p-dropdown>

component.ts:

selectedCity: string = 1; //Id value of the City to be selected

If it is not fixed due to version problems, try this:

this.cities.value = this.selectedCity;  

Hope this helps...

Answer 4

I been having this issue too and after several minutes debugging, I have found that some of the common reason for this problem can be:

1) Type mismatch - The drop-down can be binding to integers and [(ngModel)] property can be an string.

For example:

<p-dropdown [options]="countries" [(ngModel)]="selectedCountry"></p-dropdown>

Where

countries = [1,2,3]

and

selectedCountry = '1'

2) Uppercase- Lower-Case - The drop-down can be binding to an string that is lower case and [(ngModel)] property can be on Uppercase or a combination of both.

For example:

countries = ['United States', 'England', 'Bolivia']

and

selectedCountry = 'united states'

It has to be an exact match to work as expected, in this case 'United States'

Answer 5

I use this solution to fix this

html:

<p-dropdown name="country" [options]="countries" [(ngModel)]="country" placeholder="select country" (onChange)="changeCountry()"></p-dropdown>

ts:

    public country;
    public countries;
    ngOnInit() {
        this.applicant.country = 'India';
        this.getCountry().then(()=>{
          this.country = this.applicant.country
        })
    } 
    getCountry(){
      return new Promise( (resolve,reject) => {
        this.UserService.getallcountries().subscribe(result => {
          this.cnt.forEach(element => {
            this.countries.push({
              label: element.name,
              value: element.id
            });
          });
          resolve();
        }, error =>{
          reject();
        });
      })          
    }
    changeCountry(){
     this.country = this.applicant.country;
    }

it work at primeng 6.1.3

Answer 6

My solution was to have the countries loaded in the controller before setting the form field (ngModel or formControl). Also keep the same type of the key. Don't use number for the form control and string for the list:

// first get the cities from the server
response.cities.forEach(city => {
                      this.dropdowns['cities'].push({ value: city.id, label: element.city }); });

// when setting the form
city_id: new FormControl(this.user.city_id)

In the code above this.user.city_id and city.id has the same type number

Answer 7

I just had a similar problem. I solved this with the html attribute "optionLabel". If we read the PrimeNG documentation it says this : Name of the label field of an option when an arbitrary objects instead of SelectItems are used as options.

Official documentation

Hope it helps

Answer 8

Update in PrimgNg

While setting default value for dropdown in Primeng need to be little careful.

<p-dropdown name="country" [options]="countries" [(ngModel)]="country" placeholder="select country" (onChange)="changeCountry()"></p-dropdown>

country should be a number not string.

You can typecast it, if it is a string.

country: Number("1");

Answer 9

Replacement solution, try using:

[placeholder]="yourSelectedObject.Field"

Answer 10

your 'selectedCountry' must have all key that your countries element have

Answer 11

You can also try this. Let's say, your dropdown looks like this:

     <p-dropdown
      class="iteration-dropdown"
      [options]="cities"
      [(ngModel)]="selectedCity"
      name="selectedCity"
      (onChange)="loadIterationFeatures()"
     ></p-dropdown>

On ngOnInit, do this:

 this.selectedCity = this.select;
 this.cities = [{label: this.select, value: this.id}]

Where select and id are supposedly the default label and value.