AngularJS Web Application Development Cookbook

Interfacing with a directive using isolate scope

Scopes and their inheritance is something you will frequently be dealing with in AngularJS applications. This is especially true in the context of directives, as they are subject to the scopes they are inserted into and, therefore, require careful management in order to prevent unexpected functionalities. Fortunately, AngularJS directives afford several robust tools that help manage visibility of and interaction with the surrounding scopes.

If a directive is not instructed to provide a new scope for itself, it will inherit the parent scope. In the case that this is not desirable behavior, you will need to create an isolate scope for that directive, and inside that isolate scope, you can define a ...