angular ng-bind-html and directive within it

Question

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I have a element which I would like to bind html to it.

<div ng-bind-html="details" upper></div>

That works. Now, along with it I also have a directive which is bound to the bound html:

$scope.details = 'Success! <a href="#/details/12" upper>details</a>'

But the directive upper with the div and anchor do not evaluate. How do I make it work?

Answer 1

I was also facing this problem and after hours searching the internet I read @Chandermani's comment, which proved to be the solution. You need to call a 'compile' directive with this pattern:

HTML:

<div compile="details"></div>

JS:

.directive('compile', ['$compile', function ($compile) {
    return function(scope, element, attrs) {
        scope.$watch(
            function(scope) {
                // watch the 'compile' expression for changes
                return scope.$eval(attrs.compile);
            },
            function(value) {
                // when the 'compile' expression changes
                // assign it into the current DOM
                element.html(value);

                // compile the new DOM and link it to the current
                // scope.
                // NOTE: we only compile .childNodes so that
                // we don't get into infinite loop compiling ourselves
                $compile(element.contents())(scope);
            }
        );
    };
}])

You can see a working fiddle of it here