Question

I need to be able to access the current element of ng-repeat inside a directive. See the jsfiddle for this:
http://jsfiddle.net/terebentina/TVEnN/

I am expecting a hash in the console (like {width: 100, height: 100}) but I am not really sure how to do that.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Here is a fiddle that works ( and outputs what you are expecting).

http://jsfiddle.net/TVEnN/2/

Things to Note about ng-repeat:

1. ng-repeat always creates a NEW SCOPE for each element in the array / object.
2. The current element is available in this new scope as the name of the element defined in the ng-repeat. For ex: if you defined ng-repeat = "page in pages" then the current element is available in the scope as page. If you defined ng-repeat = "(key,value) in object" both key and value are available in this new scope.
3. The current position in the array is available as $index.
4. Since ng-repeat creates a new scope and all scopes inherit from their parent the pages in the above example is still available in this new scope, which means you could do stuff like $scope.pages.length if you need to.