I have two DIVs - one, that is always visible, and another one, that gets displayed after I click a button (it is toggable):
<div>
<div>
<small>ADDRESS</small>
<p [appQueryHighlight]="query">{{ address}}</p>
</div>
</div>
<div *ngIf="showDetails">
<div>
<small>NAME</small>
<p [appQueryHighlight]="query">{{ name}}</p>
</div>
</div>
My custom directive works well on the first DIV (it changes the color of letters inside the paragraph that match the query entered in an "input"), but does not work on the second DIV.
Here is an example of how "Test address" looks like when query is "addr":
Test address
where bold text is for example red-colored text.
But when I have name John, and query is "Joh", it should also be colored once shown with the button, but it is not.
As I understand, I need to re-run the directive after I click and toggle the second div. Also, probably I have to do this with delay, so it has time to be shown. How can I do this?
UPDATE
Problem with my directive is related to *ngFor - both DIV are located withing ngFor. I have to call directive ngOnChanges or ngOnInit only after the new list get propagated based on the query. I have no idea how to do this, and currently, directives get loaded before ngFor fully loads - this cause problems.
Here is my previous answer:
I finally managed to solve this problem, thanks to @iHazCode.
So firstly, this is probably a duplication of problem described here: Angular 4 call directive method from component
Because my directive hightlights the specific letters in paragraph based on input query, each time the query changes, the directive should fire, thus I am using ngOnChanges withing the directive.
This is not working with *ngIf, because when ngOnChanges fires, the second div and paragraph is not visible.
As a workaround, we can access the directive from out component using @ViewChildren:
@ViewChildren(QueryHighlightDirective) dirs;
And then call it's ngOnChanges method, once div is toggled. In my case, the problem was related with last occurence of the directive within the component:
toggleDetails() {
...
this.dirs.last.ngOnChanges();
}
That was exactly what I was looking for, I hope it will help someone.
In my case I also encountered another problem - the defined DIVs are within *ngFor, which is also propagated based on the query, so I have to make sure that the list will get propagated before calling ngOnChanges. I haven't find a solution for this yet.
ngIf does not show/hide elements. ngIf determines if the element exists on the DOM. You can verify this by looking at the source of your rendered page. Change the code to use ngHide/Show instead.
