AngularJS : transcluding multiple sub elements in a single Angular directive

Question

I am Fairly new to Angular but have been reading quite a lot. I was reading about ng-transclude at http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive#creating-custom-directives_demo_isolating-the-scope-of-a-directive and I think I understand properly what it does.

If you have a directive that applies to an element that has content inside it such as in

<my-directive>directive content</my-directive>

It will allow you to tag an element within the directive's template with ng-transclude and the content included in the element would be rendered inside the tagged element.

so if the template for myDirective is <div>before</div><div ng-transclude></div><div>after</div> it would render as beforedirective contentafter.

this is all o.k. my Q is is it possible to somehow pass more then a single block of html into my directive?

e.g.

suppose the directive usage would look like this:

<my-multipart-directive>
     <part1>content1</part1>
     <part2>content2</part2>
</my-multipart-directive>

and have a template like:

<div>
  this: <div ng-transclude="part2"></div>
   was after that: <div ng-transclude="part1"></div>
   but now they are switched
<div>

render as

<div>
  this: <div ng-transclude="part2">content2</div>
   was after that: <div ng-transclude="part1">content1</div>
   but now they are switched
<div>

?

(thinking to myself) Could I somehow bind the HTML value of a node to the model so that I will be able to use it in such a way without calling it "transclude" ...

Thanks

Answer 1

Starting Angular 1.5, it's now possible to create multiple slots. Instead of transclude:true, you provide an object with the mappings of each slot:

https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngTransclude

angular.module('multiSlotTranscludeExample', [])
 .directive('pane', function(){
    return {
      restrict: 'E',
      transclude: {
        'title': '?pane-title',
        'body': 'pane-body',
        'footer': '?pane-footer'
      },
      template: '<div style="border: 1px solid black;">' +
                  '<div class="title" ng-transclude="title">Fallback Title</div>' +
                  '<div ng-transclude="body"></div>' +
                  '<div class="footer" ng-transclude="footer">Fallback Footer</div>' +
                '</div>'
    };
})