I want to use $compile in a controller inside a function and not in a directive. is it possible? I am trying the below code.
$compile('<div ng-attr-tooltip="test">Cancel</div>')(scope)
But this is throwing scope is undefined error. I tried to pass $scope inside the function but it is not working.
How would Angular know that you changed the DOM? You need to compile your html before appending it (using $compile service).
If you absolutely need access outside of a directive you can create an injector.
$(function() {
// myApp for test directive to work, ng for $compile
var $injector = angular.injector(['ng', 'myApp']);
$injector.invoke(function($rootScope, $compile) {
$('body').prepend($compile('<div ng-attr-tooltip="test">Cancel</div>')($rootScope));
});
});
It's worth to note, the injector in previous answer (var $injector = angular.injector(['ng', 'myApp']);) will not append compiling directive to your currently running angular app, it will create new instead.
To dynamically append new directives to your app, you should use already existed injector:
$(function() {
angular.element(document).injector().invoke(function($rootScope, $compile) {
$('body').prepend($compile('<div ng-attr-tooltip="test">Cancel</div>')($rootScope));
});
});
See last paragraph in documentation.
I tried @Vaibhav Jain's answer, with no success. After a little more digging, this is what I found to work on Angular 1.3, and jQuery:
$(function() {
angular.element(document).injector().invoke(['$compile', function ($compile) {
// Create a scope.
var $scope = angular.element(document.body).scope();
// Specify what it is we'll be compiling.
var to_compile = '<div ng-attr-tooltip="test">Cancel</div>';
// Compile the tag, retrieving the compiled output.
var $compiled = $compile(to_compile)($scope);
// Ensure the scope and been signalled to digest our data.
$scope.$digest();
// Append the compiled output to the page.
$compiled.appendTo(document.body);
});
});
I did this
var SCOPE;
app_module.controller('appController', function ($scope, $compile) {
SCOPE = $scope;
$scope.compile = function (elem_from, elem_to) {
var content = $compile(angular.element(elem_from))($scope);
angular.element(elem_to).append(content);
}
});
use like this
SCOPE.compile(elem1.content, elem2);
I recompiled my html by the following way when I was needed to recompile my html to apply the changes on the page.
It happens when I was trying to go to other link and back again to the page but for some reason the angular code was not compiling.
So I fixed this by compiling the html part of the page again at a load event.
function OnLoad() {
angular.element("form:first").injector().invoke(['$compile', function ($compile) {
var $scope = angular.element("form:first").scope();
$compile("form:first")($scope);
}]);
}
Below is the app declaration.
<form ng-app="formioApp" ng-controller="formioAppCtrl">
and OnLoad() function is assigned in a html element's onload event on that page.
