How to prevent an angular-bootstrap dropdown from closing (Unbind Event which was bound by a directive)

Question

I am using the Angular-Bootstrap Dropdown. I want to prevent it from closing on click until the user closes it intentionally.

Default state is: The Dropdown closes

Answer 1

Here is what the code looks like using the approved angular-bootstrap auto-close method. Notice the auto-close attribute goes on the top <div>.

<div class="btn-group" uib-dropdown auto-close="disabled">
    <button id="single-button" type="button" class="btn btn-primary" uib-dropdown-toggle>
        Button dropdown <span class="caret"></span>
    </button>
    <ul class="dropdown-menu" uib-dropdown-menu role="menu" aria-labelledby="single-button">
        <textarea class="form-control" ng-model="description" rows="4" placeholder="Description"></textarea>
    </ul>
</div>

Answer 2

You can stop event from bubbling up in DOM Tree in angular 2 and above by adding event propagation. Ex: (click)="$event.stopPropagation()"

Answer 3

This is another hack, but you could add a directive to stop the toggle event from propagating. For example something like this worked for my specific use case:

<div>
<div class="btn-group" dropdown is-open="status.isopen" ng-controller="DropDownCtrl">
  <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary dropdown-toggle" ng-disabled="disabled">
    Button dropdown <span class="caret"></span>
  </button>
  <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
    <li ng-click="goToPage('Action')">Action</li>
    <li disable-auto-close>Don't Dismiss</li>
    <li ng-click="goToPage('SomethingElse')">Something else here</li>
  </ul>
</div>

Adding this directive to an element should disable the auto close behavior:

angular.module('plunker', ['ui.bootstrap'])
.controller('DropDownCtrl', ['$scope', '$location',
function($scope, $location) {
  // Controller logic here
  $scope.goToPage = function(page) {
    console.log("Going to " + page + ". Dropdown should close");
    $location.path(page);
  };
}])
.directive('disableAutoClose', function() {
  // directive for disabling the default
  // close on 'click' behavior
  return {
        link: function($scope, $element) {
            $element.on('click', function($event) {
                console.log("Dropdown should not close");
                $event.stopPropagation();
            });
        }
    };
});

Plunker Example Here