Bind click handler to dynamically created DOM elements - angularjs

Question

In my Ionic 2 app I have a template with this code:
<div class="body" [innerHTML]="ticket.Body | safeHtml"></div>
The body is HTML that is returned from a remote API. That HTML can contain images. I want to bind a "click" event handler on those images so that I can open them in an InAppBrowser when a user taps on them.
What would be the best way to do that?
Angular 4.1.3, Ionic 3.3.0

Answer 1

Solution 1
Try binding an event on to the parent to capture clicked target elements.
// HTML file
<div class="body" [innerHTML]="ticket.Body | safeHtml" (click)="bodyDivClick($event)" >
</div>
// TS file
bodyDivClick(event) {
// Check if the clicked target is an Image element.
// You can also check by css class name for specific image elements.
if (event.target && event.target.tagName === 'IMG') {
let imageElem = event.target;
console.log('Image clicked');
}
}
Solution 2
You can also try using ngFor to loop your results (images) into view and bind an event on the image itself.
Assuming that ticket is a JSON parsed object retrieved from the remote API.
<div class="body">
<div *ngFor="let imageUrl of ticket.images; let i = index;" class="image-container" >
<img src="{{imageUrl}}" class="image-style" (click)="imageClick()" />
</div>
</div>
Most probably the first solution might work for you if you are not able to change the response of the Remote API from html to JSON/objects (if it's not implemented by you).