Can I create non-empty Knockout components that use the child markup within them?
An example would be a component for displaying a modal dialog, such as:
<modal-dialog>
<h1>Are you sure you want to quit?</h1>
<p>All unsaved changes will be lost</p>
</modal-dialog>
Which together with the component template:
<div class="modal">
<header>
<button>X</button>
</header>
<section>
<!-- component child content somehow goes here -->
</section>
<footer>
<button>Cancel</button>
<button>Confirm</button>
</footer>
</div>
Outputs:
<div class="modal">
<header>
<button>X</button>
</header>
<section>
<h1>Are you sure you want to quit?</h1>
<p>All unsaved changes will be lost</p>
</section>
<footer>
<button>Cancel</button>
<button>Confirm</button>
</footer>
</div>
It's impossible in 3.2, however it would be possible in next version, see this commit and this test.
For now to you have to pass parameters to component via params
property
Define your component to expect content
parameter:
ko.components.register('modal-dialog', {
viewModel: function(params) {
this.content = ko.observable(params && params.content || '');
},
template:
'<div class="modal">' +
'<header>' +
'<button>X</button>' +
'</header>' +
'<section data-bind="html: content" />' +
'<footer>' +
'<button>Cancel</button>' +
'<button>Confirm</button>' +
'</footer>' +
'</div>'
});
Pass content parameter via params
property
<modal-dialog params='content: "<h1>Are you sure you want to quit?</h1> <p>All unsaved changes will be lost</p>"'>
</modal-dialog>
See fiddle
In new version you can use $componentTemplateNodes
ko.components.register('modal-dialog', {
template:
'<div class="modal">' +
'<header>' +
'<button>X</button>' +
'</header>' +
'<section data-bind="template: { nodes: $componentTemplateNodes }" />' +
'<footer>' +
'<button>Cancel</button>' +
'<button>Confirm</button>' +
'</footer>' +
'</div>'
});
P.S. You can build last version of knockout manually to use code above.