Pro AngularJS

CHAPTER 11

Using Element and Event Directives

In this chapter I continue to describe the directives that AngularJS provides. I describe the directives that you use to add, remove, hide, and show elements in the Document Object Model (DOM); the directives that add and remove elements from classes and set individual CSS style properties; the directives for handling events; and the directives that map between the way that AngularJS relies on data bindings and an HTML feature called Boolean attributes.

Along the way, I show you how to create custom directives to respond to events for which AngularJS doesn’t provide built-in support. I don’t get into ...