Disabling orderBy in AngularJS while editing the list

Question

After applying orderBy in my list of input boxes if i edit any field it starts sorting immediately and i loose focus. I tried to dug in the angular code and fou

Answer 1

You could override the directive to change the moment of the update to the moment you wish the reordering. You could also just not use ng-model and rely on a custom directive.

This thread discuss overriding the input directive to change the model update to be triggered by tge blur event. Take a look at the fiddle.

Although you might override the directive, you shouldn't do this, and the best solution, as explained and exemplified by @Liviu T. in the comments below would be to create a custom directive that removes the event keyup binding and adds a blur one. Here is directive code, and here is Liviu's plunker:

app.directive('modelChangeBlur', function() {
    return {
        restrict: 'A',
        require: 'ngModel',
            link: function(scope, elm, attr, ngModelCtrl) {
            if (attr.type === 'radio' || attr.type === 'checkbox') return;

            elm.unbind('input').unbind('keydown').unbind('change');
            elm.bind('blur', function() {
                scope.$apply(function() {
                    ngModelCtrl.$setViewValue(elm.val());
                });         
            });
        }
    };
});

Unfortunately, as Angular events are not namespaces, you will have to remove any previously added event.