I'm trying to re-use a portion of my HTML view in multiple places. The portion I want to re-use is table cells in an HTML table. The problem is that my custom directive inside a ng-repeat is doing funny things. I have reproduced the problem on jsFiddle. There are two HTML tables in the jsFiddle. The first is ng-repeat with the table cells written in the view and the second is the table cells coming from a directive, my-element. Chrome dev tools report that the rendered HTML looks like this. Note that the custom element appears only once and is outside the table.
Rendered HTML
<div ng-controller="MyCtrl" class="ng-scope">
table1
<table class="table table-hover">
<tbody><!-- ngRepeat: p in people -->
<tr ng-repeat="p in people" class="ng-scope">
<td class="ng-binding">Name: Mike</td>
<td class="ng-binding">Age: 20</td>
</tr>
<tr ng-repeat="p in people" class="ng-scope">
<td class="ng-binding">Name: Peter S</td>
<td class="ng-binding">Age: 22</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br>table2
<my-element class="ng-binding">Name: Age: </my-element>
<table class="table table-hover">
<tbody>
<!-- ngRepeat: p in people -->
<tr ng-repeat="p in people" class="ng-scope">
</tr>
<tr ng-repeat="p in people" class="ng-scope">
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
Source HTML
<div ng-controller="MyCtrl">
table1
<table class="table table-hover">
<tr ng-repeat="p in people">
<td>Name: {{ p.name }}</td>
<td>Age: {{ p.age }}</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br/>table2
<table class="table table-hover">
<tr ng-repeat="p in people">
<my-element></my-element>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
Source JS
var app = angular.module('myApp', []);
app.directive('myElement', function () {
return {
restrict: 'E',
template: '<td>Name: {{ p.name }}</td><td>Age: {{ p.age }}</td>'
}
});
function MyCtrl($scope) {
$scope.people = [{
name: 'Mike',
age: 20
}, {
name: 'Peter S',
age: 22
}];
}
Please note the jsFiddle is a trivial example and common sense would lead to just not using directives at all. However, my target code has a much larger template that I want to re-use. I've tried using "ng-include" as well but the result is similar.