jQuery find() method not working in AngularJS directive

Question

I am having trouble with angularjs directives finding child DOM elements with the injected angular element.

For example I have a directive like so:

Answer 1

From the docs on angular.element:

find() - Limited to lookups by tag name

So if you're not using jQuery with Angular, but relying upon its jqlite implementation, you can't do elm.find('#someid').

You do have access to children(), contents(), and data() implementations, so you can usually find a way around it.