dropdown: selected, disabled option not rendered when using selectedItem template

[capc0]

Describe the bug

Same as #14716 but only when using a template to render the dropdown differently:

<ng-template let-item pTemplate="selectedItem">
    {{ item }}
  </ng-template>

Environment

see below

Reproducer

https://stackblitz.com/edit/github-npixcr-zf149n?file=src%2Fapp%2Fapp.component.html

Angular version

17.1.2

PrimeNG version

17.7.0

Build / Runtime

Angular CLI App

Language

TypeScript

Node version (for AoT issues node --version)

18

Browser(s)

No response

Steps to reproduce the behavior

open the stackblitz (see above)

Expected behavior

The selected item should be rendered

[rosenthalj]

This issue is the result of the PrimeNG's dropdown.ts passes selectedOption to the "selectedItem" template, but disabled options are currently not allowed to be the selectedOption.

See the annotated screenshot of your reproducer listed below:

If PrimeNG is changed to allow the selectedOption to be set to a disabled option, the following is an untested fix to dropdown.ts:

[thetric]

This was working in 17.4.0 but broke in 17.5.0 due to the refactoring introduced in #13991

[cetincakiroglu]

Hi,

Thanks for reporting the issue, it's fixed in 24ea912