By default, KO "will only render the template for the new item and will insert it into the existing DOM".
Is there a way to disable this feature (as in, force KO to render all items anew)?
By default, KO "will only render the template for the new item and will insert it into the existing DOM".
Is there a way to disable this feature (as in, force KO to render all items anew)?
If you use jQuery.tmpl's native {{each koObservableArray()}}
syntax Knockout cant update single items but must rerender the entire template
see more here: http://knockoutjs.com/documentation/template-binding.html
the template engine’s native ‘each’ support: after any change, the template engine is forced to re-render everything because it isn’t aware of KO’s dependency tracking mechanism.
You only get the "default" behavior if you use the foreach template mode, i.e.:
<div data-bind='template: { name: "personTemplate",
foreach: someObservableArrayOfPeople }'> </div>
I came across a similar problem today and was able to solve it for my team's issue by replacing the template with a custom binding that first clears all ko data and empties the container before rendering.
http://jsfiddle.net/igmcdowell/b7XQL/6/
I used a containerless template like so:
<ul data-bind="alwaysRerenderForEach: { name: 'itemTmpl', foreach: items }"></ul>
and the custom binding alwaysRerenderForEach:
ko.bindingHandlers.alwaysRerenderForEach = {
init: function(element, valueAccessor) {
return ko.bindingHandlers.template.init(element, valueAccessor);
},
update: function(element, valueAccessor, allBindings, viewModel, context) {
valueAccessor().foreach(); // touch the observable to register dependency
ko.utils.domData.clear(element); // This will cause knockout to "forget" that it knew anything about the items involved in the binding.
ko.utils.emptyDomNode(element); //Because knockout has no memory of this element, it won't know to clear out the old stuff.
return ko.renderTemplateForEach(valueAccessor().name, valueAccessor().foreach, {}, element, context);
}
};
Obviously a little late as an answer to your query, but may help others who hit this off a search (as I did).