I am trying to create a wrapper for a select component in Angular 2 using ngModel. All events fire correctly after changing a selection, but I cannot set the initial selection when rendering it.
This is my component:
@Component({
selector: 'my-dropdown',
inputs: ['selectedItem', 'items', 'label'],
outputs: ['selectedItemChange'],
template: `
<div class="field">
<label>{{label}}</label>
<select class="ui search selection dropdown" [ngModel]="selectedItem" (change)="onChange($event.target.value)">
<option value="" selected>Please Select</option>
<option *ngFor="#item of items" [value]="item.value">{{item.label}}</option>
</select>
</div>`
})
export class MyDropdownComponent {
items: DropdownValue[];
selectedItem: DropdownValue;
selectedItemChange: EventEmitter<any> = new EventEmitter();
private onChange(newValue) {
console.log(newValue);
this.selectedItem = this.items.find(item => item.value == newValue);
console.log(this.selectedItem);
this.selectedItemChange.emit(newValue);
}
}
And I use it in the view as follows:
<my-dropdown [items]="selectItems" [(selectedItem)]="itemToSelect" [label]="'Please Select'"></my-dropdown>
When I set the value itemToSelectin the parent component to init, it does not set the value of the selected parameter in the user interface.
I also tried to use the event ngModelChange, but it does not fire the change event.
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