Chapter 10AngularJS Directives
The Directive API is one of the coolest features of AngularJS. Now
that you've been developing in AngularJS for some time, you've come across
many simple directives, such as ng-repeat,
ng-show, ng-model, etc. But when you
come to develop real world apps you'll most likely need custom directives.
This chapter will teach you how to build these and implement them in our
demo app.
What Are Directives, Really?
A directive is something that attaches special behavior to a DOM
element and teaches it awesome tricks! Let's take the example of the
built-in ng-repeat directive: What this does is attach
special behavior to a DOM element by repeating it multiple times.
Similarly, ng-show and ng-hide conditionally show or hide ...
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