SteveSanderson/knockout — Issue #223: select is unable to bind value to a non-string
Author: huntmaestro
Created: 2011-12-07 22:11:14+00:00
State: open

It appears that the 'value' binding on a select always writes the updated value as a string. In some ways this makes sense, since the attribute is stored as a string. However, if the type of the variable specified in the optionsValue binding is numeric, it would be nice if the value updates also were numeric. An example is here...

http://jsfiddle.net/H2tBF/