If there's an ng-click and a href together on an anchor the ng-click doesn't work. I want both to work if possible, go to a route and then run a function. My use-case is I have a drawer open with a panel of links, when going to a link I want to close the drawer.
What's an easy way to get both working at the same time?
Once you navigate away from the page scripts no longer run.*
Your flow can be something like:
When the user clicks, run a function that does the following:
- Run the original function you wanted to run
- Handle any 'navigate away in this specific case' logic.
- Change
location.href
to the URL you want to to navigate to.
It's of course possible to extract this behavior to a directive if you find yourself implementing that bit of logic over and over :)
* You can use onbeforeunload but that's not good for plenty of other reasons
The question was asking for the wrong thing. Using the href and the ng-click together works perfectly fine, I just had an ui-view in the parent element that prevented any angular bindings from working at all.