I am trying to add a new select every time a button is clicked,
The html:
<div ng-repeat = "select in selects track by $index">
<ui-select ng-model="selects[$index]" theme="select2" ng-disabled="disabled" style="min-width: 300px;">
<ui-select-match placeholder="Select a person in the list or search his name/age...">{{$select.selected.name}}</ui-select-match>
<ui-select-choices repeat="person in people">
<div ng-bind-html="person.name | highlight: $select.search"></div>
</ui-select-choices>
</ui-select>
</div>
<button ng-click="addNewSelect()"> Add new select</button>
The controller:
$scope.selects = [{}];
$scope.addNewSelect = function() {
$scope.selects.push({});
}
The array of objects gets saved in the array 'selects', but the placeholder is not coming in the selects as I am initializing the ng-model with an empty object initially. How to get he placeholder working in this case?
Here is the Plunker for the same.
You are missing the .selected after the selects[$index].
Without this, the ui-select believes that you have selected an empty object (the selects[$index]) and won't show the placeholder.
<ui-select ng-model="selects[$index].selected" theme="select2" ng-disabled="disabled" style="min-width: 300px;">
http://plnkr.co/edit/56SHyE01BJ4EXglLlIcb?p=preview
also you dont need to look up using the index, you can just use select.selected
<ui-select ng-model="select.selected" theme="select2" ng-disabled="disabled" style="min-width: 300px;">