Question

I use both Bootstrap and AngularJS in my web app. I’m having some difficulty getting the two to work together.

I have an element, which has the attribute data-provide="typeahead"

<input id="searchText" ng-model="searchText" type="text"
       class="input-medium search-query" placeholder="title"
       data-provide="typeahead" ng-change="updateTypeahead()" />

And I want to update the data-source attribute when the user inputs in the field. The function updateTypeahead is triggered correctly, but I don’t have access to the element that triggered the event, unless I use $('#searchText'), which is the jQuery way, not the AngularJS way.

What is the best way to get AngularJS to work with old style JS module.

Answer 1

 updateTypeahead(this)

will not pass DOM element to the function updateTypeahead(this). Here this will refer to the scope. If you want to access the DOM element use updateTypeahead($event). In the callback function you can get the DOM element by event.target.

Please Note : ng-change function doesn’t allow to pass $event as variable.