AngularJS - Set default value on select inside a ng-repeat [duplicate]

I am not very much clear about your requirement but if you want to display a default selected value to <select>, you can use ng-selected. In order to use that you need to have default selected value in your controller as a model to your <select> and add ng-selected to your <options ng-selected="{{defaultvalue == value.id}}" ng-repeat="value in vatRates">

For code and reference i just altered your plunker,

http://embed.plnkr.co/ZXo8n0jE8r3LsgdhR0QP/preview

Hope this helps.

You should set the default value on the ng-model via controller instead of ng-init. From the docs

The only appropriate use of ngInit is for aliasing special properties of ngRepeat, as seen in the demo below. Besides this case, you should use controllers rather than ngInit to initialize values on a scope.

— AngularJS ng-init Directive API Reference - Overview

angular.module('app', []).controller('SelectController', function() {    var selectCtrl = this;  selectCtrl.values = ["Value 1", "Value 2", "Value 3"];  selectCtrl.selectedValue = "Value 1";})

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.23/angular.min.js"></script><div ng-app="app" ng-controller="SelectController as selectCtrl"><select ng-model="selectCtrl.selectedValue">   <option ng-repeat="value in selectCtrl.values" value="{{value}}">{{value}}     </option>   </select></div>