Prompt with ng-mouseenter in AngularJS

Question

I am trying to get a button to produce a prompt using ng-mouseeneter, but I can't seem to get it working. Below is the code I have.

<span class="button" ng-mouseover="prompt('hello')">Say hello</span>

Ilan Frumer · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-04 00:56:52Z

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The expression you pass into ng-mouseover is not evaluated against the global scope (window object), it's evaluated against an angular $scope.

You can put window.prompt on the $rootScope:

app.run(function($rootScope,$window){

   $rootScope.prompt = $window.prompt;
});

answered Feb 4, 2014 at 0:56

Ilan Frumer

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