AngularJS Web application development Cookbook

Directive templating

Directives will frequently load HTML templates from outside their definition. When using them in an application, you will need to understand how to properly manage them, how they interact (if at all) with the directive's parent scope, and how they interact with the content nested inside them.

Getting ready

Suppose that you begin with the following skeleton application:

(index.html - uncompiled)

<div ng-app="myApp">
  <div ng-controller="MainCtrl">
    <my-directive>
      Stuff inside
    </my-directive>
  </div>
</div>

(app.js)

angular.module('myApp', [])
.controller('MainCtrl', function ($scope) {
  $scope.overwrite = false;
  $scope.origin = 'parent controller';
});

How to do it…

Introduce a template to the directive as follows:

(index.html – uncompiled) ...