Bind Angularjs to newly created html element dynamically
I have a tab page with multiple tabs that once clicked on call a service to return some data. Some of that data returns html forms and are very random. I want to collect those values that are entered and send the data via a service back to the server. The problem I have is that I can't get the data from the input elements in the html I'm creating dynamically.
I've created a Plunker to show what the issue is. Note that the html value can change at any time so hard-coding the html won't work. Here the code from the plunker, but please look at the plunker for the best view of whats going on.
app.js
var app = angular.module('plunker', []);
app.controller('MainCtrl', function($scope, $sce, $compile) {
$scope.name = 'World';
$scope.html = "";
$scope.htmlElement = function(){
var html = "<input type='text' ng-model='html'></input>";
return $sce.trustAsHtml(html);
}
});
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html ng-app="plunker">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>AngularJS Plunker</title>
<script>document.write('<base href="' + document.location + '" />');</script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.0-rc.3/angular.js"></script>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</head>
<body ng-controller="MainCtrl">
<p>Hello {{name}}!</p>
<div ng-bind-html="htmlElement()"></div>
{{html}}
</body>
</html>
Answer
One solution would be to use ngInclude with $templateCache, as demonstrated in this Plunker.
There are a couple things to note.
The first is that you can fetch your template using a service and add it to the $templateCache, as described here (example copied):
myApp.service('myTemplateService', ['$http', '$templateCache', function ($http, $templateCache) {
$http(/* ... */).then(function (result) {
$templateCache.put('my-dynamic-template', result);
});
}]);
Then you can include it in your template as follows:
<div ng-include="'my-dynamic-template'"></div>
ngInclude will allow databinding on the html string, so you don't need ngBindHtml.
The second is that, as ngInclude creates a new scope, accessing the html property outside of the newly created scope won't work properly unless you access it via an object on the parent scope (e.g. ng-model="data.html" instead of ng-model="html". Notice that the $scope.data = {} in the parent scope is what makes the html accessible outside of the ngInclude scope in this case.
(See this answer for more on why you should always use a dot in your ngModels.)
Edit
As you pointed out, the ngInclude option is much less useful when using a service to return the HTML.
Here's the edited plunker with a directive-based solution that uses $compile, as in David's comment above.
The relevant addition:
app.directive('customHtml', function($compile, $http){
return {
link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
$http.get('template.html').then(function (result) {
element.replaceWith($compile(result.data)(scope));
});
}
}
})