Angular ngStyle Parser Error: Unexpected token [, expected identifier or keyword

Question

I need to be able to pass a dynamic string using the fieldName in order to get an attribute within the item object. In order to make it easy to duplicate the issue I have given a small example. The problem is this syntax works properly with angular 12.2.5 as I checked but did not work with angular 12.0.0 or below. I can simply call a function but I know this is not good for performance. Is there an alternate way to write this syntax for older angular applications?

HTML

<p [style.background]="item?.[fieldName]">
  Some Text
</p>

ts

item =  { warn: 'yellow', success: 'green', error: 'red' };
fieldName = 'success';

Error looks like this

Parser Error: Unexpected token [, expected identifier or keyword at column 20 in [{background: item?.[fieldName]}]

NeNaD · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-14 15:29:15Z

4

Try to use ternary operator ?::

<p [style.background]="item[fieldName] ? item[fieldName] : ''">
  Some Text
</p>

answered Sep 14, 2021 at 15:29

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