Fixes issue with .data() storing/retrieving values as original type causing mismatch with .val() [string only] #2754 #2755

RELEASE-NOTES.md

@@ -21,6 +21,15 @@
 - **List** - Lists can now be `right floated` or `left floated`
 - **Menu** - `text menu` now uses padding for hitboxes to make target area for links larger
 
+**[Merged Pull Requests](https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A2.1.0+is%3Aclosed)**
+
+- **Menu** - Fixes tabular menu missing variable for background. **Thanks @frontdevde**
+- **Sticky** - Sticky now sets width and height with `!important` to avoid inheritance issues in some cases **Thanks @lauri-elevant** #2710
+- **Flag** - England flag alias is now correctly set #2770 **Thanks @eduardom**
+- **Popup** - Popup will now look for inline popup as any next adjacent sibling #2772 **Thanks @malacalypse**
+- **API** - API debug is now `false` by default, like other modules. #2817
+- **Dropdown** - Fixed issue where label could not be removed when using a numeric value due to mismatched types #2754 #2755 **Thanks @dgurkaynak**
+
 **[Reported Bugs](https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A2.1.0+is%3Aclosed)**
 - **Accordion** - Added missing notation for accordion docs #2812
 - **Container** - Fix issue with `fluid container` being `100% + gutter` at mobile resolution (causing overflow)
@@ -53,14 +62,6 @@
 - **Menu** - Fixed hybrid initialization not creating `menu` correctly. Fixed docs example of hybrid `<select>` initialization
 - **Dropdown/Tab** - Fixed an instance where `metadata` was not referencing settings metadata value
 
-**[Merged PR](https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A2.1.0+is%3Aclosed)**
-
-- **Menu** - Fixes tabular menu missing variable for background. **Thanks @frontdevde**
-- **Sticky** - Sticky now sets width and height with `!important` to avoid inheritance issues in some cases **Thanks @lauri-elevant** #2710
-- **Flag** - England flag alias is now correctly set #2770 **Thanks @eduardom**
-- **Popup** - Popup will now look for inline popup as any next adjacent sibling #2772 **Thanks @malacalypse**
-- **API** - API debug is now `false` by default, like other modules. #2817
-
 ### Version 2.0.8 - August 10, 2015
 
 **All UI** - This release should fix issues caused when importing individual component using `require` when using [single component repos](https://github.com/Semantic-Org/). See discussion in [#2816](https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI/pull/2816), and previously [#1156](https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI/pull/1156), and [#1878](https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI/pull/1878)

src/definitions/modules/dropdown.js

@@ -2152,7 +2152,7 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
             else {
               module.verbose('Storing value in metadata', value, $input);
               if(value !== currentValue) {
-                $module.data(metadata.value, value);
+                $module.data(metadata.value, stringValue);
               }
             }
             if(settings.fireOnInit === false && module.is.initialLoad()) {
@@ -2597,15 +2597,18 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
               .each(function(){
                 var
                   value       = $(this).data(metadata.value),
-                  isUserValue = module.is.userValue(value)
+                  stringValue = (typeof value == 'number')
+                    ? value.toString()
+                    : value,
+                  isUserValue = module.is.userValue(stringValue)
                 ;
                 if(isUserValue) {
-                  module.remove.value(value);
-                  module.remove.label(value);
+                  module.remove.value(stringValue);
+                  module.remove.label(stringValue);
                 }
                 else {
                   // selected will also remove label
-                  module.remove.selected(value);
+                  module.remove.selected(stringValue);
                 }
               })
             ;