title: how to programmatically select an option as the selected option?
body: <p>I have an html that look like this </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select class="form-control"
      name="settings.provider"
      id="settings.provider"
      ng-model="settings.provider"
  required&gt;
      &lt;option value="" disabled selected&gt;Select Provider&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option value="thisProvider"&gt;thisProvider&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How will I programmatically select "thisProvider" as the selected option?</p>
  
  <p>I tried this but it isn't working:</p>
  
  <p>$scope.settings.provider = "thisProvider";</p>