TemplateRef Content to Variable

Question

I would like to get the innerText of the ng-content of a component as a simple string to be able to reuse it.

I tried something like this:

@Component({
  selector: 'my-comp',
  template: `
    <div class="text-container">
      <span class="text" [title]="text">{{text}}</span>
    </div>
    <ng-template #text>
      <ng-content></ng-content>
    </ng-template>
  `
})
export class MyComponent implements AfterViewInit {
  @ViewChild('text') text: TemplateRef<string>;

  ngAfterViewInit(): void {
    console.log(this.text);
  }
}

And I use it like this:

<my-com>
  My simple string text
</my-com>

The goal is to get my string My simple string text into the variable text ...

Thoughts?

Answer 1

I don't think what you want can be made work (see comments below your question)

My suggestion is

<ng-template #text>My simple string text</ng-template>
<my-comp [text]="text"></my-comp>

and get it like

  @Input() text: TemplateRef<string>;

  ngAfterViewInit(): void {
    console.log('text', this.text);
  }

Then you can use the template reference to output it

<ng-container *ngTemplateOutlet="text"></ng-container>

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