En muchos casos, no es necesario las opciones de sí mismos para ser observable, sólo el resultado de la selección. Aquí está el ejemplo que hace la selección del condado de UK.
HTML:
<div class="form-group">
<label for="county">County</label>
<select class="fieldValue" data-bind="foreach: $root.countyList, value: orgCounty">
<optgroup data-bind="attr: {label: label}, foreach: counties">
<option data-bind="text: label, value: label"></option>
</optgroup>
</select>
</div>
JS:
viewModel.countyList = getCountyList();
viewModel.orgCounty = ko.observable('London'); // Put default value here
function getCountyList() {
var $arrayCounties = [
{ "label" : "England", "counties" : [
{ "label" : "Bedfordshire"},
{ "label" : "Berkshire"},
{ "label" : "Bristol"},
{ "label" : "Buckinghamshire"},
{ "label" : "Cambridgeshire"},
{ "label" : "Cheshire"},
{ "label" : "City of London"},
{ "label" : "Cornwall"},
{ "label" : "Cumbria"},
{ "label" : "Derbyshire"},
{ "label" : "Devon"},
{ "label" : "Dorset"},
{ "label" : "Durham"},
{ "label" : "East Riding of Yorkshire"},
{ "label" : "East Sussex"},
{ "label" : "Essex"},
{ "label" : "Gloucestershire"},
{ "label" : "Greater London"},
{ "label" : "Greater Manchester"},
{ "label" : "Hampshire"},
{ "label" : "Herefordshire"},
{ "label" : "Hertfordshire"},
{ "label" : "Isle of Wight"},
{ "label" : "Kent"},
{ "label" : "Lancashire"},
{ "label" : "Leicestershire"},
{ "label" : "Lincolnshire"},
{ "label" : "Merseyside"},
{ "label" : "Norfolk"},
{ "label" : "North Yorkshire"},
{ "label" : "Northamptonshire"},
{ "label" : "Northumberland"},
{ "label" : "Nottinghamshire"},
{ "label" : "Oxfordshire"},
{ "label" : "Rutland"},
{ "label" : "Shropshire"},
{ "label" : "Somerset"},
{ "label" : "South Yorkshire"},
{ "label" : "Staffordshire"},
{ "label" : "Suffolk"},
{ "label" : "Surrey"},
{ "label" : "Tyne and Wear"},
{ "label" : "Warwickshire"},
{ "label" : "West Midlands"},
{ "label" : "West Sussex"},
{ "label" : "West Yorkshire"},
{ "label" : "Wiltshire"},
{ "label" : "Worcestershire"} ]},
{ "label" : "Wales", "counties" : [
{ "label" : "Anglesey"},
{ "label" : "Brecknockshire"},
{ "label" : "Caernarfonshire"},
{ "label" : "Carmarthenshire"},
{ "label" : "Cardiganshire"},
{ "label" : "Denbighshire"},
{ "label" : "Flintshire"},
{ "label" : "Glamorgan"},
{ "label" : "Merioneth"},
{ "label" : "Monmouthshire"},
{ "label" : "Montgomeryshire"},
{ "label" : "Pembrokeshire"},
{ "label" : "Radnorshire"} ]},
{ "label" : "Scotland", "counties" : [
{ "label" : "Aberdeenshire"},
{ "label" : "Angus"},
{ "label" : "Argyllshire"},
{ "label" : "Ayrshire"},
{ "label" : "Banffshire"},
{ "label" : "Berwickshire"},
{ "label" : "Buteshire"},
{ "label" : "Cromartyshire"},
{ "label" : "Caithness"},
{ "label" : "Clackmannanshire"},
{ "label" : "Dumfriesshire"},
{ "label" : "Dunbartonshire"},
{ "label" : "East Lothian"},
{ "label" : "Fife"},
{ "label" : "Inverness-shire"},
{ "label" : "Kincardineshire"},
{ "label" : "Kinross"},
{ "label" : "Kirkcudbrightshire"},
{ "label" : "Lanarkshire"},
{ "label" : "Midlothian"},
{ "label" : "Morayshire"},
{ "label" : "Nairnshire"},
{ "label" : "Orkney"},
{ "label" : "Peeblesshire"},
{ "label" : "Perthshire"},
{ "label" : "Renfrewshire"},
{ "label" : "Ross-shire"},
{ "label" : "Roxburghshire"},
{ "label" : "Selkirkshire"},
{ "label" : "Shetland"},
{ "label" : "Stirlingshire"},
{ "label" : "Sutherland"},
{ "label" : "West Lothian"},
{ "label" : "Wigtownshire"} ]},
{ "label" : "Northern Ireland", "counties" : [
{ "label" : "Antrim"},
{ "label" : "Armagh"},
{ "label" : "Down"},
{ "label" : "Fermanagh"},
{ "label" : "Londonderry"},
{ "label" : "Tyrone"} ]}
];
return $arrayCounties;
}
que recuperará la opción seleccionada en viewModel.countyList.
Supongo que podría usar el enlace attr como se documenta en http://knockoutjs.com/documentation/attr-binding.html – kfuglsang
Aquí hay un hilo sobre cómo agregar opciones Soporte del grupo: https://github.com/SteveSanderson/knockout/pull/94 –