Here is an example of a minimal example for angularjs which works when saved as angular.html
:
I found a solution using manual setup. The code then looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>My HTML File</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.9/angular.min.js" />
<script type="text/javascript">
angular.module('myApp', []);
angular.element(document).ready(function() {
angular.bootstrap(document, ['myApp']);
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>Nothing here {{'yet' + '!'}}</p>
</body>
</html>
While this seems a suitable workaround for now, I'd still love to know what the problem is...
One of the best ways to do this is to use the HTML/XHTML data-
attributes. You can write valid HTML and XHTML without having to include any angular namespace. This would be as follows:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" data-ng-app="">
<head>
<title>My HTML File</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.9/angular.min.js" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Nothing here {{'yet' + '!'}}</p>
</body>
</html>
This is also beneficial when it comes to all other Angular declarations, such as ng-repeat
and ng-show
, etc.
<div ng-repeat="item in items">{{item.name}}</div> // This won't validate.
<div data-ng-repeat="item in items">{{item.name}}</div> // This will validate.
Note that your solution with bootstrapping the Angular app is also valid - but it's not really a fix for the issue you're having. (It's simply a different way to load your Angular app, which happened to work for your situation since you didn't have any other ng-
directives in your markup.)
See a similar question and answer here.