How can I use ng-animate with ui-view rather than ng-view?

Question

I am using angular-ui-router with angularJS v1.2 and would like to implement custom page transitions.
How can I use ng-animate with ui-view (from angular-ui-router) rather than ng-view (which would be the standard way)? See Remastered Animation in AngularJS 1.2 for reference on ng-view.

EDIT: I have tried two different versions of angular: v1.2.0-rc.2 and v1.2.0-rc.3 as suggested in the comments, but neither seems to do the trick. I guess I might be doing something wrong?

Here is the HTML:

<div ui-view class="slide"></div>

and the CSS:

.slide {
    width:1024px;
    height:768px;
}
.slide.ng-enter,
.slide.ng-leave {
    -webkit-transition:0.5s linear all;
    -moz-transition:0.5s linear all;
    -o-transition:0.5s linear all;
    transition:0.5s linear all;
    border: 1px solid blue;
}

.slide.ng-enter.ng-enter-active {
    border: 1px solid red;
}

I added a JSfiddle of the previously mentioned example. It would be nice to expand this example to cover ng-view and ui-view, but I'm not sure how to get ng/ui-view and the partials into JSfiddle, though.

Solution 1

The bug is now closed and they've added an entry over at the ui-router Wiki. It also includes a demo Plunkr. I will copy the code example here, just in case the URL would become outdated.

HTML:

<div class="row">
   <div class="span12 ui-view-container">
      <div class="well" ui-view></div>        
   </div>
</div> 

CSS:

/* Have to set height explicity on ui-view 
to prevent collapsing during animation*/
.well[ui-view]{
 height: 65px; 
}

.ui-view-container {
  position: relative;
}

[ui-view].ng-enter, [ui-view].ng-leave {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  -webkit-transition:all .5s ease-in-out;
    -moz-transition:all .5s ease-in-out;
    -o-transition:all .5s ease-in-out;
    transition:all .5s ease-in-out;
}

[ui-view].ng-enter {
  opacity: 0;
  -webkit-transform:scale3d(0.5, 0.5, 0.5);
  -moz-transform:scale3d(0.5, 0.5, 0.5);
  transform:scale3d(0.5, 0.5, 0.5);
}

[ui-view].ng-enter-active {
  opacity: 1;
  -webkit-transform:scale3d(1, 1, 1);
  -moz-transform:scale3d(1, 1, 1);
  transform:scale3d(1, 1, 1);
}

[ui-view].ng-leave {
  opacity: 1; 
  -webkit-transform:translate3d(0, 0, 0);
  -moz-transform:translate3d(0, 0, 0);
  transform:translate3d(0, 0, 0);
}

[ui-view].ng-leave-active {
  opacity: 0;
  -webkit-transform:translate3d(100px, 0, 0);
  -moz-transform:translate3d(100px, 0, 0);
  transform:translate3d(100px, 0, 0);
}

Solution 2

Looks like this is fixed with UI Router 0.2.8. I'm using AngularJS v1.2.7.

For an example, just add the "slide" class to your ui-view

<div ui-view class="slide">

And use the following css for your animation.

.slide {
    -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform .7s ease-in-out;
    -moz-transition: -moz-transform .7s ease-in-out;
    -o-transition: -o-transform .7s ease-in-out;
    transition: transform .7s ease-in-out;
    -webkit-transform: translateX(0);
    transform: translateX(0);
}

.slide.ng-enter {
    -webkit-transform: translateX(-100%);
    transform: translateX(-100%);
}

.slide.ng-enter.ng-enter-active, .slide.ng-leave {
    position: absolute;
    -webkit-transform: translateX(0);
    transform: translateX(0);
}

.slide.ng-leave.ng-leave-active {
    -webkit-transform: translateX(100%);
    transform: translateX(100%);
}

Additionally, some animations seemed to have some weird behavior because of $uiViewScroll. I worked around it by adding autoscroll="false" to my ui-view element.

Solution 3

Over the weekend, I created two plunks demonstrating view animations for both ui-view and ng-view

ui-view: http://plnkr.co/edit/jpebBk?p=preview

ng-view: http://plnkr.co/edit/LQhVYU?p=preview

angular-ui-router 0.2.8 came with fixes to major view animation bugs

Solution 4

I just posted a tutorial with a working demo for using ngAnimate (1.4.8) with UI Router.

It shows a couple of different view animations, a fade in transition on the main view and a slide in/out transition on a nested view.

Here's a snippet from the LESS file for the fade in transition on the main view:

main {
    /* start 'enter' transition */
    &.ng-enter {
        /* transition on enter for .5s */
        transition: .5s;

        /* start with opacity 0 (invisible) */
        opacity: 0;
    }

    /* end 'enter' transition */
    &.ng-enter-active {
        /* end with opacity 1 (fade in) */
        opacity: 1;
    }
}

Solution 5

Avoid the view name for named-views or id for that element.

For example, if this is your html

<div id="home-page" ui-view="home">
  <!-- THIS IS WHERE YOUR TEMPLATE WILL BE LOADED -->
</div>

Instead of:

/*AVOID*/
div#home-page[ui-view="home"].ng-enter {
    /*ENTER STYLES*/
}
div#home-page[ui-view="home"].ng-enter-active {
    /*...ENTER-ACTIVE-STYLES*/
}

Try:

div[ui-view].ng-enter {
    /*...ENTER-STYLES*/
}
div[ui-view].ng-enter-active {
    /*...ENTER-ACTIVE-STYLES*/
}

Good Luck.

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