Working through the directive spectrum
Directives can be incorporated into HTML in several different ways. Depending on how this incorporation is done, the way the directive will interact with the DOM will change.
How to do it…
All directives are able to define a link function, which defines how that particular directive instance will interact with the part of the DOM it is attached to. The link functions have three parameters by default: the directive scope (which you will learn more about later), the relevant DOM element, and the element's attributes as key-value pairs.
A directive can exist in a template in four different ways: as an HTML pseudo-element, as an HTML element attribute, as a class, and as a comment.
The element directive
The element ...
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