Angular 4 setting selected option in Dropdown

If you want to select a value as default, in your form builder give it a value :

this.myForm = this.FB.group({
    mySelect: [this.options[0].key, [/* Validators here */]]
});

Now in your HTML :

<form [formGroup]="myForm">
    <select [formControlName]="mySelect">
        <option *ngFor="let opt of options" [value]="opt.key">ANY TEXT YOU WANT HERE</option>
    </select>
</form>

What my code does is giving your select a value, that is equal to the first value of your options list. This is how you select an option as default in Angular, selected is useless.

If you want to select a value based on true / false use

[selected]="opt.selected == true"

 <option *ngFor="let opt of question.options" [value]="opt.key" [selected]="opt.selected == true">{{opt.selected+opt.value}}</option>

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Angular 2 - Setting selected value on dropdown list

Here is my example:

<div class="form-group">
    <label for="contactMethod">Contact method</label>
    <select 
        name="contactMethod" 
        id="contactMethod" 
        class="form-control"
        [(ngModel)]="contact.contactMethod">
        <option *ngFor="let method of contactMethods" [value]="method.id">{{ method.label }}</option>
    </select>
</div>

And in component you must get values from select:

contactMethods = [
    { id: 1, label: "Email" },
    { id: 2, label: "Phone" }
]

So, if you want select to have a default value selected (and proabbly you want that):

contact = {
    firstName: "CFR",
    comment: "No comment",
    subscribe: true,
    contactMethod: 2 // this id you'll send and get from backend
}