Accessing jQuery or jQuery Lite Directly
For most AngularJS applications the jQuery lite library built into AngularJS is sufficient. However, if you need the additional functionality of the full version of jQuery, simply load the jQuery library before loading the AngularJS library. For example:
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js"></script><script src="http://code.angularjs.org/1.2.9/angular.min.js"></script>
Regardless of whether jQuery lite or the full jQuery library is loaded, jQuery is accessed from the AngularJS code using the element attribute of the angular variable available when AngularJS is bootstrapped. Essentially, angular.element will be an alias for the jQuery variable that is normally ...
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