What is the best way to conditionally apply a class?

Question

Lets say you have an array that is rendered in a ul with an li for each element and a property on the controller called selectedIndex.

Answer 1

Just adding something that worked for me today, after much searching...

<div class="form-group" ng-class="{true: 'has-error'}[ctrl.submitted && myForm.myField.$error.required]">

Hope this assists in your successful development.

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Answer 2

Here is a much simpler solution:

function MyControl($scope){
    $scope.values = ["a","b","c","d","e","f"];
    $scope.selectedIndex = -1;
    
    $scope.toggleSelect = function(ind){
        if( ind === $scope.selectedIndex ){
            $scope.selectedIndex = -1;
        } else{
            $scope.selectedIndex = ind;
        }
    }
    
    $scope.getClass = function(ind){
        if( ind === $scope.selectedIndex ){
            return "selected";
        } else{
            return "";
        }
    }
       
    $scope.getButtonLabel = function(ind){
        if( ind === $scope.selectedIndex ){
            return "Deselect";
        } else{
            return "Select";
        }
    }
}

.selected {
    color:red;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.0.1/angular.min.js"></script>
<div ng-app ng-controller="MyControl">
    <ul>
        <li ng-class="getClass($index)" ng-repeat="value in values" >{{value}} <button ng-click="toggleSelect($index)">{{getButtonLabel($index)}}</button></li>
    </ul>
    <p>Selected: {{selectedIndex}}</p>
</div>

Answer 3

The was I recently did that was doing this:

<input type="password"  placeholder="Enter your password"
ng-class="{true: 'form-control isActive', false: 'isNotActive'}[isShowing]">

The isShowing value is a value that is located on my controller that gets toggled with the click of a button and the parts between the single parenthesis are classes I created in my css file.

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Answer 4

You can use this npm package. It handles everything and has options for static and conditional classes based on a variable or a function.

// Support for string arguments
getClassNames('class1', 'class2');

// support for Object
getClassNames({class1: true, class2 : false});

// support for all type of data
getClassNames('class1', 'class2', ['class3', 'class4'], { 
    class5 : function() { return false; },
    class6 : function() { return true; }
});

<div className={getClassNames({class1: true, class2 : false})} />

Answer 5

I faced a similar problem recently and decided to just create a conditional filter:

  angular.module('myFilters', []).
    /**
     * "if" filter
     * Simple filter useful for conditionally applying CSS classes and decouple
     * view from controller 
     */
    filter('if', function() {
      return function(input, value) {
        if (typeof(input) === 'string') {
          input = [input, ''];
        }
        return value? input[0] : input[1];
      };
    });

It takes a single argument, which is either a 2-element array or a string, which gets turned into an array that is appended an empty string as the second element:

<li ng-repeat="item in products | filter:search | orderBy:orderProp |
  page:pageNum:pageLength" ng-class="'opened'|if:isOpen(item)">
  ...
</li>

Answer 6

Check this.

The infamous AngularJS if|else statement!!!
When I started using Angularjs, I was a bit surprised that I couldn’t find an if/else statement.

So I was working on a project and I noticed that when using the if/else statement, the condition shows while loading. You can use ng-cloak to fix this.

<div class="ng-cloak">
 <p ng-show="statement">Show this line</span>
 <p ng-hide="statement">Show this line instead</span>
</div>

.ng-cloak { display: none }

Thanks amadou