Structural directive - finding the element it is placed on

Question

With a structural directive, how would I get a hold of the (native) element the directive is on? With a normal directive, the ElementRef has it\'s nativeElement pointing to it -

Answer 1

This isn't pretty, but worked for me:

this.viewContainer.get(0).rootNodes[0]

I used it when implementing a version of *ngIf directive but with animation: animatedIf.