title: KnockoutJS Select Options and Selected Value
body: <p>Similar question as: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7516089/knockoutjs-select-initial-value">Select element&#39;s initial value</a></p>
  
  <p>I'm having an issue setting the initial value of the select element. I basically have a list of seed data coming in from the server to populate the drop down list, and I want the selected value to represent what should be selected from the entity. </p>
  
  <p>Because the data model's selected value doesn't equal the object reference in the seed data, nothing is selected.</p>
  
  <p>Right now, I'm looping through each entity, finding the correct selected value, setting that equal to the seed data's equivalent, then Knockout knows how to wire it up. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a more elegant solution that this? I fiddled a simplified example with more details... <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/hbrYM/14/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://jsfiddle.net/hbrYM/14/</a></p>