Accessing angular directive (element)'s text inside the template

javascript angularjs angularjs-directive

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app.directive('myDir', function(){
  return {
    restrict: "E",
    transclude: true,
    templateUrl: "myDirTemplate.html",
    replace: true
  }
});

and then your external template becomes something similar to:

<div>The value is: <span ng-transclude></span></div>

View the code working here: http://plnkr.co/edit/EuT5UlgyxgM8d54pTpOr?p=preview

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Rex T

Updated on July 23, 2022

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Rex T almost 2 years
So I am following this EggHead.io tutorial on custom components, and I came across this problem. When declaring a directive such as:
```
angular.module('myApp', [])
    .directive('myDir', function(){
        return {
            restrict: "E",
            controller: "myController",
            link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
                scope.foo = element.text();
            },
            templateUrl: "myDirTemplate.html"
        }
    });
```
and the Template being:
```
<div>The value is: {{foo}}</div>
```
and the directive being used such as follows:
```
<html>
...
<myDir>Bar</myDir> 
...
</html>
```
element in the link function refers to the
```
<div>The value is: {{foo}}</div>
```
in the template. If I don't specify the templateUrl, then element refers to the
```
<myDir>Bar</myDir> 
```
in the main view, which is what I want. I was hoping the directive would take the "Bar" text and insert it into the {{foo}}, giving the final result of:
```
<div>The value is: Bar</div> 
```
But I don't know how to get around angular selecting the template's element every single time.

Any ideas?