angular2 toggle icons inside ngFor

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Pratap A.K picture Pratap A.K · Feb 3, 2017 · Viewed 9.4k times · Source

Can some one please let me know how to toggle icons while doing ngFor?

Problem Statement: I'm using *ngFor to loop through an array and display category names. On click of day I need to open an accordian and show category details (I can do this). Once accordian opens I need to replace fa-plus icon with fa-minus and vice-versa and I need to do this only for clicked day.

How can I achieve this effectively?

this.categoryList = [
{type: 'space', name: 'Space'},
{type: 'energy', name: 'Energy'},
{type: 'comfort', name: 'Comfort'},
{type: 'maintenance', name: 'Maintenance'},
{type: 'reporting', name: 'Reporting'}
];

HTML

<div class="{{category.type}}" *ngFor="let category of categoryList">
    <div data-toggle="collapse" [attr.href]="'#'+'category-'+category.type">
    <div class="title {{category.name}}">{{category.name}}</div>
    <div>
        <i class="fa fa-plus"></i> //needs to toggle between plus and minus
                <i class="fa fa-minus"></i> //needs to toggle between plus and minus
    </div>
    </div>

    <div class="collapse" id="category-{{category.type}}">
        //details
    </div>
</div>

Answer

kuncevic.dev picture kuncevic.dev · Feb 3, 2017

If I understand you right you can have just one <i> on the page instead of having two:

template:

<div *ngFor="let day of daysInAWeek; let i = index">
    <div>{{day}}</div>
    <div>
        <i class="fa" [ngClass]="toggle[i] ? 'fa-plus': 'fa-minus'" aria-hidden="true"></i>
    </div>
    <div class="details">Today is {{day}}</div>
    <button (click)="toggle[i] = !toggle[i]">Toggle</button>
</div>

ts:

daysInAWeek: string[] = ['Mo', 'Tu', 'We', 'Th', 'Fr', 'Sa', 'Su']; 
toggle = {};

So you can toggle just toggle classes on that element to be fa-plus or fa-minus

You can put (click)="toggle[i] = !toggle[i] on any html element inside your *ngFor temlpate so it will trigger the toggle on click for related <i> element.

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