I need to put a button in Ionic that stays activated after it's been pressed, and only deactivates after it's been pressed again.
There is a similar question but it only applies to icon buttons. (How to adding navigation bar button having ionic-on/ ionic-off functionality).
EDIT
I can't use a toggle button, it is required to be a regular looking buttom (in this case an Ionic button-outline) that stays active when pressed.
Here is some code:
<div class="botones">
<div class="row">
<div class="col">
<button class="button button-outline button-block button-positive">
Promociones
</button>
</div>
<div class="col">
<button class="button button-outline button-block button-energized" >
Aprobados
</button>
</div>
<div class="col">
<button class="button button-outline button-block button-assertive" >
Alerta
</button>
</div>
<div class="col">
<button class="button button-outline button-block button-balanced" >
ATM
</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
As you can see is a simple horizontal array of buttons. They suppose to act as filters for a message inbox, so they have to stay pressed (one at the time at most) as the filter is active. Like a tab but not quite.
The main question is, how can I access the activated state of the button so I can mantain it activated.
You may find toggle button useful. Here's the official link to this example:
<ion-toggle ng-model="airplaneMode" toggle-class="toggle-calm">Airplane Mode</ion-toggle>
edit:
Here's a demo from Codepen
and the code pasted here:
angular.module('mySuperApp', ['ionic'])
.controller('MyCtrl',function($scope) {
});
<html ng-app="mySuperApp">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>
Toggle button
</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no">
<link href="//code.ionicframework.com/nightly/css/ionic.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="//code.ionicframework.com/nightly/js/ionic.bundle.js"></script>
</head>
<body class="padding" ng-controller="MyCtrl">
<button class="button button-primary" ng-model="button" ng-click="button.clicked=!button.clicked" ng-class="button.clicked?'button-positive':'button-energized'">
Confirm
</button>
</body>
</html>
In Ionic, you can add class 'active' to a .button, to make it look pressed/active.
And to make only one active at a time, you can do something like this:
angular.module('ionicApp', ['ionic'])
.controller('MainCtrl', function($scope) {
$scope.buttons = [
{icon: 'beer', text: 'Bars'},
{icon: 'wineglass', text: 'Wineries'},
{icon: 'coffee', text: 'Cafés'},
{icon: 'pizza', text: 'Pizzerias'},
];
$scope.activeButton = 0;
$scope.setActiveButton = function(index) {
$scope.activeButton = index;
};
});
<html ng-app="ionicApp">
<head>
<link href="//code.ionicframework.com/1.1.0/css/ionic.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="//code.ionicframework.com/1.1.0/js/ionic.bundle.js"></script>
</head>
<body ng-controller="MainCtrl">
<ion-content class="padding">
<div class="button-bar">
<button
ng-repeat="button in buttons"
ng-class="{'active': activeButton == $index}"
ng-click="setActiveButton($index)"
class="button icon ion-{{button.icon}}"
>
{{button.text}}
</button>
</div>
</ion-content>
</body>
</html>
Also, you can view a demo on Codepen.