CoffeeScript - Referencing DOM nodes in Angular expressions is disallowed

Question

My main question is simple :

I get errors when doing DOM manipulation within Controllers or Directives however, the functionality works perfectly.

Erro         


        

Answer 1

Although the accepted answer is right I'd like to share my experience anyway as it turned out to be a different problem. In fact I had the same issue but I wasn't actually returning anything at all from my function (and not using CoffeeScript) so i was puzzled for a bit and struggled to find a solution.

In my case the problem appeared to be that I was passing the DOM node as an argument to the function like so:

What proved to be a solution here was changing the mentioned code to pass only the event and not the node directly:

Then fetch the node in the controller/directive/whatever like so:

doSomething = function(evt){
    var elem = evt.currentTarget;
    // do something with this element...
};