Is it possible to create an HTML fragment in an AngularJS controller and have this HTML shown in the view?
This comes from a requirement to turn an inconsistent JSON blob into a nested list of id: value
pairs. Therefore the HTML is created in the controller and I am now looking to display it.
I have created a model property, but cannot render this in the view without it just printing the HTML.
Update
It appears that the problem arises from angular rendering the created HTML as a string within quotes. Will attempt to find a way around this.
Example controller :
var SomeController = function () {
this.customHtml = '<ul><li>render me please</li></ul>';
}
Example view :
<div ng:bind="customHtml"></div>
Gives :
<div>
"<ul><li>render me please</li></ul>"
</div>
For Angular 1.x, use ng-bind-html
in the HTML:
<div ng-bind-html="thisCanBeusedInsideNgBindHtml"></div>
At this point you would get a attempting to use an unsafe value in a safe context
error so you need to either use ngSanitize or $sce to resolve that.
Use $sce.trustAsHtml()
in the controller to convert the html string.
$scope.thisCanBeusedInsideNgBindHtml = $sce.trustAsHtml(someHtmlVar);
There are 2 steps:
include the angular-sanitize.min.js resource, i.e.:
<script src="lib/angular/angular-sanitize.min.js"></script>
In a js file (controller or usually app.js), include ngSanitize, i.e.:
angular.module('myApp', ['myApp.filters', 'myApp.services',
'myApp.directives', 'ngSanitize'])