How to prevent directive with transclude to create new scopes?
This jsfiddle I cant bind anything due to the new scopes illustrated with red borders.
It is actually expected behavior as stated here (ng-transclude create a child scope): https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/1056 and discussed here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/angular/45jNmQucSCE/hL8x48-JfZIJ
You can workaround this by setting a member on an object in the scope (obj.var) like in this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/rdarder/pnSNj/10/
Although this is not recommended by the Angular team, another workaround is to explicitly call the $parent scope within the transcluded portion:
<div ng-app="components">
<input ng-model="var">
<block>
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<input ng-model="$parent.var">
</block>
</div>