Pro Angular 16

14 Creating attribute directives

This chapter covers

• Creating custom directives that modify a single HTML element
• Configuring and applying custom directives
• Receiving data in a custom directive
• Using the directive lifecycle API
• Generating custom events from directives
• Creating directives that support template variables

In this chapter, I describe how custom directives can be used to supplement the functionality provided by the built-in ones of Angular. The focus of this chapter is attribute directives, which are the simplest type that can be created and that change the appearance or behavior of a single element. In chapter 14, I explain how to create structural directives, which are used to change the layout of the HTML document. Components ...