I need to use ng-repeat
(in AngularJS) to list all of the elements in an array.
The complication is that each element of the array will transform to ei
Update: If you are using Angular 1.2+, use ng-repeat-start. See @jmagnusson's answer.
Otherwise, how about putting the ng-repeat on tbody? (AFAIK, it is okay to have multiple <tbody>s in a single table.)
<tbody ng-repeat="row in array">
<tr ng-repeat="item in row">
<td>{{item}}</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
I would like to just comment, but my reputation is still lacking. So i'm adding another solution which solves the problem as well. I would really like to refute the statement made by @bmoeskau that solving this problem requires a 'hacky at best' solution, and since this came up recently in a discussion even though this post is 2 years old, i'd like to add my own two cents:
As @btford has pointed out, you seem to be trying to turn a recursive structure into a list, so you should flatten that structure into a list first. His solution does that, but there is an opinion that calling the function inside the template is inelegant. if that is true (honestly, i dont know) wouldnt that just require executing the function in the controller rather than the directive?
either way, your html requires a list, so the scope that renders it should have that list to work with. you simply have to flatten the structure inside your controller. once you have a $scope.rows array, you can generate the table with a single, simple ng-repeat. No hacking, no inelegance, simply the way it was designed to work.
Angulars directives aren't lacking functionality. They simply force you to write valid html. A colleague of mine had a similar issue, citing @bmoeskau in support of criticism over angulars templating/rendering features. When looking at the exact problem, it turned out he simply wanted to generate an open-tag, then a close tag somewhere else, etc.. just like in the good old days when we would concat our html from strings.. right? no.
as for flattening the structure into a list, here's another solution:
// assume the following structure
var structure = [
{
name: 'item1', subitems: [
{
name: 'item2', subitems: [
],
}
],
}
];
var flattened = structure.reduce((function(prop,resultprop){
var f = function(p,c,i,a){
p.push(c[resultprop]);
if (c[prop] && c[prop].length > 0 )
p = c[prop].reduce(f,p);
return p;
}
return f;
})('subitems','name'),[]);
// flattened now is a list: ['item1', 'item2']
this will work for any tree-like structure that has sub items. If you want the whole item instead of a property, you can shorten the flattening function even more.
hope that helps.