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Getting the selected string in the dropdown list in Angular

To begin with, I am an absolute beginner in front-end development, thus please excuse me if the question is too elementary.
The project I am working on, a drop-down list has been defined as:
<div ng-controller="FacetController">
<div class="spnlocationdrop-container" ng-hide="isservicelocal">
<select class="spnlocationdrop" ng-model="$parent.locationsearch" ng-options="location for location in locations | sortArray ">
<option value="">All Cities</option>
</select>
</div>
</div>
The list contains cities, out-of which the user has to select one. The value has to be stored, and sent to the backend via an AJAX call.
How do I get the selected value? Until now, I've been doing that using the document.getElementByID().value() function, but since the above list contains no ID, how do I get the value?

ng-model will have the value of the option selected.
Here's a simple working example: Plunker
In my example, data.singleSelect has the value you need so I'm able to output that to the view using {{ data.singleSelect }} though if I wanted to access it in my controller I would do var input = $scope.data.singleSelect and then pass that input variable to the backend via an AJAX call.

Getting typeahead to work in an Angular template?

I currently have a partial HTML that is being routed to, with a template and a custom Controller. The code snippet in my Angular template I would like to get working is:
<input type="text" typeahead=val for val in getValue($viewValue)>
However, it never enters into the function getValue(), while all other functions in my controller seem to be okay. When I take the typeahead out of the Angular template/partial, it seems to work. Why is this and how do I fix it?

You need to have an ng-model attribute to use the typeahead directive from AngularUI, even if you don't need to bind it to anything.
Change your markup to similar to the following:
<input type="text" ng-model="typeaheadVal" typeahead="val for val in getValue($viewValue)">

Change form input data-bind value

I have a form in Laravel using Knockout.js, the input data-bind gets the last data from mysql. Everything works fine but a simple textfield to write in some values for the data is not what I want and a multiselect is not working for me.
I've searched for something to add values to this textfield and I've found the TextExt plugin. Now I can add some values like on this site the Tags field and save them.
In TextExt JS I can set the tagged values on page startup with
tagsItems: {{ $title->language }},
title->language get the Data from mysql and shows it as tags, but now I have the tagged values on startup and the data-bind value with the same data only as text and I need to delete them first before I can edit it.
Is there a way to hide the value from the data-bind or clear it on startup? Here is the form code I'm using
<input type="text" id="language" class="text-core" data-bind="value: app.models.title.language, valueUpdate: 'keyup' " placeholder="Language">
**edit** this is the working form
{{ Form::label('language', trans('dash.language')) }}
{{ Form::text('language', Input::old('language'), array('class' => 'text-core')) }}
When I delete the data-bind value I can't update the data.
I found something to clear the textfield on focus, but I want the tagged values on start because the data-bind value is only shown as text.
Have you some ideas how to do this?

ng-click doesn't take parameters from the DOM

I have the following code:
<input id="id">
<button data-action="bea" ng-click="Create($('#id1')[0].value);" class="btn">Insert ID</button>
<button data-action="bea" ng-click="Create($('#id2')[0].value);" class="btn">Insert ID</button>
In the JS I have:
$scope.Create = function (id){
if (id === undefined) {
$scope.data = "You must specify an id";
} else {
$scope.data = data;
console.log(data);
});
}
};
When the call gets into the Create function the value of the id is undefined.
If I add the following line at the beginging of the Create function everything works ok:
id = $('#id')[0].value;
If I send a constant value it works:
<button data-action="bea" ng-click="Create('SomeID');" class="btn">Insert ID</button>
Why is this happening and how can I do that without putting the line of value into the method?
Thanks

This is just an extension of comments and other answers, You could achieve this in many ways using angular, one simple example could be:-
<!-- Add a controller -->
<div ng-controller="MainCtrl">
<!-- Give a model binding to your text input -->
<input ng-model="userEntry" type="text"/>
<!-- ng-click pass which ever argument you need to pass, provided it is an expression that can be evaluated against the scope or any constants -->
<button data-action="bea" ng-click="Create(userEntry);" class="btn">Insert ID</button>
<!-- Some simple data binding using interpolation -->
{{data}}
<!-- Just for demo on repeater on a list of items on the scope -->
<div ng-repeat="item in items track by $index">{{item}}</div>
</div>
Example Demo
My 2 cents on the lines of what were originally trying to do:-
Use angular bindings instead of accessing DOM directly for getting the data, it really helps you deal with just the data without worrying about how to access or render it in DOM. If you think you need to access DOM for implementing business logic re-think on the design, if you really need to do it, do it in a directive. Angular is very opinionated on the design and when where you do DOM access.
ng-model
ng-binding
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all about ngmodel controller

This is not the way you should do in AngularJS. You should really think in Angular if you want to use AngularJS. Refer this post ("Thinking in AngularJS" if I have a jQuery background?)
All DOM manipulation should be done in Directive. Refer this page that I found really clear.
(http://ng-learn.org/2014/01/Dom-Manipulations/)

My guess is that $ is not bound to the jQuery function when the ng-click value is evaluated, because it is not exposed in the Angular scope.
Solutions to adress this:
expose the jQuery function in scope somewhere, e.g $scope.$ = $; in a controller.
make the Create function parameterless as you suggested, with a var id = $('#id')[0].value; at the beginning
my favorite : avoid using jQuery. If you put some data in the #id element, there's probably a more natural and AngularJS-idiomatic way of retrieving it than querying the DOM (e.g an Angular service).
In particular, if the element you're targeting is an <input> element, then use the ngModel directive to link the value to a $scopeproperty that will be accessible in the controller :
<input ng-model="inputData"/>

The JavaScript you are trying to pass as a parameter of the create function is not available in the scope of the Create function.
Try to target the element a different way.
Does that help?

Data Binding between pages in Angularjs

I am trying to understand data binding in Angularjs.
What I want to do is establish binding between pages that is if I change the input on first.html, the data should automatically change in second.html.
For example,
This is first.html:
<div ng-controller="MyCtrl">
<input type="text" ng-model="value"/><br>
{{value}}
<input type="submit" value="Second page"/>
</div>
and say second.html has only this piece of code {{value}}.
and in the .js file we have $routeProvider which takes the template url as 'second.html' & the controller is 'MyCtrl'.
So the controller is:
MyApp.controller(function($scope){
$scope.value="somevalue";
})
By doing the above way the {{value}} on the second.html is getting the value "somevalue". Which is comming from the controller.
But if I change the input value dynamically that is on the first.html, the value on the second.html is not getting that value.
My question is how do I bind the value on second.html with first.html automatically.
To understand the question clearly, Suppose there is an input field for entering text and a submit button on first.html, then I want to get the Input value of the text field of the first.html on the second.html page on Submit.

Use a service and store your model there. Gloopy already has a good example of this here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12009408/215945
Be sure to use an object property instead of a primitive type.
If you'd rather use $rootScope, then as above, define an object, rather than a primitive:
$rootScope.obj = { prop1: "somevalue" }`
then bind to that object property in your views:
<input type="text" ng-model="obj.prop1">
{{obj.prop1}}

If you attach your data to $rootScope if will survive transitions across controllers and be part of all $scopes (prototype inheritance magic)
//**attach in controller1:**
function MyCtrl1($rootScope) {
$rootScope.recs= { rec1 : "think philosophically" };
}
//**do nothing in controller for view2:**
function MyCtrl2($scope) {
//nothing
}
//**Markup for view2: automaticall makes use of data in $routeScope**
<p>Try doing this: {{recs.rec1 }}</p>
//**markup for view1 to respond to OPs question in comments**:
<input ng-model="recs.rec1" />
Update: Creating a custom service is a more scalable and structurally sound way to handle this, but the $rootScope method is the quick and dirty way.
Update2: added view1 markup to respond to OP question, edited example to take advantage of correct advice to use object rather than primitive.

Found the Solution to what I was looking for, The solution is in the Angular docs, here is the link http://docs.angularjs.org/cookbook/deeplinking.
Some part of the example on that link answers my question.

You should user $broadcast, $emit or scope communication. Try to avoid overloading the rootScope. It is as a bad practice as saving data into the application sessions.