Render a directive from a controller - angularjs

I've built a directive <playlist> which calls my custom service to return and then display a list of videos. So far so good. However, I don't want this directive to render and call my API until the user clicks on a link elsewhere on the page.
How can I have a link outside of the directive trigger the rendering of the <playlist> item? I looked for some sort of onShow event to no avail.

You can use the ng-if directive to keep your directive out of the DOM until the link is clicked. So your HTML would looks something like this:
<div ng-if="showPlaylist">
<playlist />
</div>
Then you would just set showPlaylist to true when you want it to show/render.

I was able to figure this out based on dnc253's feedback.
Toggle Playlist
<div ng-if="showPlaylist != undefined">
<playlist ng-show="showPlaylist"></playlist>
</div>
On initial page load <playlist> is hidden and not rendered. Clicking the link renders <playlist>. Subsequent clicks toggle the ng-show attribute and so the scope is not reset.

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Rending a Modal in AngularJS

I'm attempting to learn AngularJS (background in BackboneJS). I have a div with some content inside, and I hope to render this div as a modal upon clicking inside of it:
<div class="stickynote"> Content here </div>
My thinking is to add a modal class that I can style in CSS. However, I'm not too sure how to add the modal class upon clicking (and conversely, removing the modal class upon clicking after the modal is rendered). Would I have to use ng-click and somehow set the class property from the JavaScript (myApp.js) file?
If you want to use your own modal styling and if you simply want to achieve adding an extra item to class attribute of your element, you can use a combination of ng-class and ng-click:
<div class="stickynote"
ng-class="{yourModalCSSClass: isModalOpen}"
ng-click="isModalOpen = true">
And somewhere else, you need another ng-click to turn it off:
<button ng-click="isModalOpen = false">Close modal</button>
Beware that both div and button must be in the same scope hierarchy to be able to use the same isModalOpen value. And by the way, I haven't tried this code but this should give you an idea. If you have a controller/directive, you can set isModalOpen from there by introducing functions in the scope:
// controller
$scope.toggleModal = function () {
$scope.isModalOpen = !$scope.isModalOpen;
}
<div ...
ng-click="toggleModal()">
<button ng-click="toggleModal()">...
If you're open to using a third-party solution, ng-dialog is an outstanding solution for modals+Angular.
https://github.com/likeastore/ngDialog

AngularJs app does not bind data to DOM

I have created simple angularJS app.I used ng-repeat to bind data to DOM
<div class="row folder" ng-repeat="f in viewModel.folders">
<div>{{f.name}}</div>
</div>
so weird ,my data not bind to DOM until I click any button with "ng-click" action.
I do not know why ?
I resolved myself by call $scope.apply() at the end.

AngularJS - looking to add and remove an iframe based on dom events

I would like to add an iframe to a page when certain links are clicked and remove it when other mouse events happen on the page. From what I can see, it seems that using an AngularJS directive would be the best way to do this. What I'm not sure about is what is the best way to format the directive. I'm thinking of making the directive at the attribute level...something like this:
<div myIframeDirective></div>
What I'm not sure of is the best way of removing/adding the directive contents (an iframe and a header above it) when various click events happen on the main page. Not looking for anyone to write the code for me...just looking for examples of how this can be best accomplished.
You should be using ng-if.
<iframe src="http://www.example.com/" ng-if="showIframe"></iframe>
<button ng-click="showIframe = !showIframe">Click me to show/hide the iframe</button>
Here's a working example:
var app = angular.module('app', []);
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.23/angular.min.js"></script>
<div ng-app="app">
<iframe src="http://www.example.com/" ng-if="showIframe"></iframe>
<button ng-click="showIframe = !showIframe">Click me to show/hide the iframe</button>
</div>
In Angular, ng-if will remove the iframe from the DOM if it is false.
This means the URL will NOT be requested until ng-if is true.
<iframe ng-if="frameDisplayed" ng-src="{{src}}"></iframe>
And use the link
Toggle
Then in your controller, you can control what your iframe display:
$scope.src = 'https://angularjs.org';

AngularJs Render div onclick

If I'm having this code below. How can I render the div(#divToRender) when clicking the button. I know there is angularJs code for hide/show. But I dont want it to be rendered until I click my button. Is that possible? //Thanks
<button>Render my div!</button
<div id="divToRender">
Some text
</div>
You could use ng-if, it will render the element only if the expression is evaluated to true.
<button ng-click="showMyDiv = true">Render my div!</button>
<div id="divToRender" ng-if="showMyDiv">
Some text
</div>
Example Plunker: http://plnkr.co/edit/jtasEuhNCghprsGZjSrh?p=preview
Also see ngIf documentation.

How to get AngularStrap active tab?

I am somewhat new to using Angular and AngularStrap directives. I need to use the tab directive with static markup like the example:
<div data-fade="1" bs-tabs>
<div data-title="'Home'"><p>Static tab content A</p></div>
<div data-title="'Profile'"><p>Static tab content B</p></div>
</div>
On another part of the page I would like to display a div only when the first tab is selected. The div is not part of the tabs, but is in the same overall controller. How can I show/hide this div based on the selected tab?
Something like this?
<div ng-show="???? active tab stuff here ????">Home tab is selected</div>
Thanks for any help.
As shown in the example on the AngularStrap page the active tap is stored in
tabs.activeTab
So you can use this property to conditionally show display something else like so
<div ng-show="tabs.activeTab == 0">The first tab is active</div>
UPDATE
Even with non object tabs you can just bind a model against the bs-tabs to store the active ID like so:
<div data-fade="1" ng-model="tabs.activeTab" bs-tabs>
Here is an updated plnkr. (Click on the 3rd tab and see the 'Test' text appear)
I found somewhat of a hack to resolve this issue for now. This does not seem like the best approach, so if someone has a better idea, please share.
I realized that the bsTabs directive is creating data-toggle attributes for each tab. By watching the data-toggle shown event, I am able to recognize the tab change and display the div. The controller code looks like this:
$scope.HomeTabSelected = true;
function watchTab() {
$('a[data-toggle="tab"]').on('shown', function (e) {
$scope.$apply($scope.HomeTabSelected = (e.target.innerHTML == "Home"));
})
}
setTimeout(watchTab, 2000); // setTimeout necessary to allow directive to render
and the HTML div uses ng-show.
<div ng-show="HomeTabSelected">Home tab is selected</div>

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