View Knockout Select Value Binding Gif. Knockout cleverly tracks dependencies, so that whenever an observable's value changes, any computed observables that use that observable are run automatically to compute. If we simply want to bind an observablearray to a <select> element then the knockout website and if we were prepared to forego having the default please select <option> element then we could and similarly, text and value seem to be fairly logical names so let's offer the same convention for those.
The value binding links the associated dom element's value with a property on your view model.
Value binding sets the value of the associated element to the value of your parameter. Personally i think knockout.js needs to work the way people expect. Knockout cleverly tracks dependencies, so that whenever an observable's value changes, any computed observables that use that observable are run automatically to compute. It works fine if i use a string, but i want to bind objects.