I am trying to show / hide some HTML using the ng-show
and ng-hide
functions provided by AngularJS.
According to the documentation, the respective usage for these functions are as follows:
ngHide – {expression} - If the expression truthy then the element is shown or hidden respectively. ngShow – {expression} - If the expression is truthy then the element is shown or hidden respectively.
This works for the following usecase:
<p ng-hide="true">I'm hidden</p>
<p ng-show="true">I'm shown</p>
However, should we use a parameter from an object as the expression then the ng-hide
and ng-show
are given the correct true
/false
value but the values are not treated as a boolean so always return false
:
Source
<p ng-hide="{{foo.bar}}">I could be shown, or I could be hidden</p>
<p ng-show="{{foo.bar}}">I could be shown, or I could be hidden</p>
Result
<p ng-hide="true">I should be hidden but I'm actually shown</p>
<p ng-show="true">I should be shown but I'm actually hidden</p>
This is either a bug or I am not doing this correctly.
I cannot find any relative information on referencing object parameters as expressions so I was hoping anyone with a better understanding of AngularJS might be able to help me out?
remove {{}} braces around foo.bar because angular expressions cannot be used in angular directives.
For More: https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngShow
example
The
foo.bar
reference should not contain the braces:Angular expressions need to be within the curly-brace bindings, where as Angular directives do not.
See also Understanding Angular Templates.
Since
ng-show
is an angular attribute i think, we don't need to put the evaluation flower brackets ({{}}
)..For attributes like
class
we need to encapsulate the variables with evaluation flower brackets ({{}}
).You can't use
{{}}
when using angular directives for binding withng-model
but for binding non-angular attributes you would have to use{{}}
..Eg:
Try wrapping expression with: