I have a directive that looks like this:
app.directive('fieldsetCollapse', function() {
return {
restrict: 'A',
scope: {},
compile: function(tElement, tAttrs, transclude) {
var wrapperElement = angular.element('<div ng-show="isOpen"></div>'),
legendElement = tElement.find('legend'),
collapsibleContent = tElement.children().not('legend'),
toggleBtn = angular.element('<a href="#" class="twisty" ng-class="{ true: \'twisty-open\', false: \'twisty-closed\' }[isOpen]" ng-click="toggle()"></a>');
legendElement.css('cursor', 'pointer')
.attr('ng-click', 'toggle()');
tElement.css({
'position': 'relative',
'marginLeft': '20px'
});
tElement.prepend(toggleBtn);
angular.forEach(collapsibleContent, function(obj, i) {
$(obj).remove();
wrapperElement.append(obj);
});
tElement.append(wrapperElement);
return function(scope, element, attrs) {
var directiveValue = (scope.$eval(attrs.gaigCollapsibleFieldset));
scope.isOpen = (directiveValue == undefined) ? true : directiveValue;
scope.toggle = function() {
scope.isOpen = !scope.isOpen;
}
}
}
}
});
Which works with this markup:
<fieldset fieldset-collapse> ... </fieldset>
If I try adding anything inside <fieldset> such as this:
<fieldset fieldset-collapse>{{foo}}</fieldset>
...where foo is defined on the scope of my controller, the output is
{{foo}}
Angular isn't compiling anything I add between my tag with the directive. Am I missing something to make this happen inside my directive?
You are creating an isolated scope in the directive definition object
return {
restrict: 'A',
scope: {} // <--- isolated scope
}
This means that your directive doesn't have access to the parent scope where the value of foo
resides.
Just comment it out. Example http://jsfiddle.net/jaimem/RE7Jj/1/
If you don't want the directive to have full access to the parent scope you can set bidirectional binding between a local scope property foo
and the parent's foo
. More details in the docs: http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive