I have a view where I have the following code:
<input type="button" value="New Post" ng-click="$state.go('blog.new-post')">
The goal is to transition to a new state without having to use href. Unfortunately the code above just does not fire.
I also tried to include $state in the controller for this view:
app.controller('blogPostsController', function($scope, $stateParams, $http, $state) ...
But still nothing. transictionTo also does not seem to work.
Anyone has any idea on how to make this work?
EDIT: I could only make it work by assigning:
$scope.$state = $state;
inside my controller. This seems ugly. There is really no other way to access $state without assigning it to scope?
According to https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/wiki/Quick-Reference#note-about-using-state-within-a-template you can add it to $rootScope
, so it will be available in all the scopes and hence all the templates, by
angular.module("myApp").run(function ($rootScope, $state, $stateParams) {
$rootScope.$state = $state;
$rootScope.$stateParams = $stateParams;
});
If you are using ui-router
there is an attribute called ui-sref
that can be used as follows:
<a ui-sref="blog.new-post"></a>
I recommend using that and styling the link as a button (can easily be done if you're using a CSS library like Twitter Bootstrap). Then you don't need to mess around with any JavaScript when writing your links.
If you need to pass a parameter into the state, you can do the following:
<a ui-sref="blog.edit-post({id: item.id})"></a>
where $scope.item is an object with an ID property you want to be passed as a URL parameter.
Simplest Solution is to use $Window Service and old Approach
- Inject $window service of angular JS.
- Use history.back() function of javascript.
- Done,It is simplest solution if you just want to go back.
I will not write whole angular JS. Only code that matters:
HTML-Code
<button ng-click="$ctrl.goBack()">Go Back</button>
JS-Code
self.goBack = function(){
$window.history.back();
};