title: Angular Material md-select default selected value
body: <p>I am using Angular 2 with <a href="https://material.angular.io/components/component/select" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Angular Material</a>. Looking at the documentation, I am trying to get the select to have a default value as oppose to an empty place holder.</p>
  <p>I have tried the following two options and both of them does not set a default value</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;md-select selected=&quot;1&quot;&gt;
    &lt;md-option value=&quot;1&quot; &gt;One&lt;/md-option&gt;
    &lt;md-option value=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Two&lt;/md-option&gt;
  &lt;/md-select&gt;
  
  &lt;md-select&gt;
    &lt;md-option value=&quot;1&quot; selected=&quot;true&quot;&gt;One&lt;/md-option&gt;
    &lt;md-option value=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Two&lt;/md-option&gt;
  &lt;/md-select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  <p>I looked at all the documentations and the examples, none of them helped.</p>