Question

How do you set the scope value for something like this:

<div ng-controller="MyCtrl">
      <my-element ng-repeat="p in people" person='p'></my-element>
</div>

var myApp = angular.module('myApp',[]);

myApp.directive('myElement', function(){
    return {
        restrict: 'E',
        template: '<div>{{ name }}</div> <div>{{ age }}</div>'
    }
});

function MyCtrl($scope) {
    $scope.people = [{ name: 'Mike', age: 20 },{name: 'Peter', age: 22 }];
}

Answer 1

If by “set the scope value” you mean have the template work, then

template: '<div>{{ p.name }}</div> <div>{{ p.age }}</div>'

Since each iteration of ng-repeat creates a new child scope, p is defined on that scope. Since your directive is not creating an isolate scope, you don’t need attribute person, so this works with the above:

<my-element ng-repeat="p in people"></my-element>

If you want an isolate scope, use

<my-element ng-repeat="p in people" person='p'></my-element>

and

return {
   restrict: 'E',
   scope: {
       person: '='
   },
   template: '<div>{{ person.name }}</div> <div>{{ person.age }}</div>'
}