Getting HTML element class from AngularJS Directive

Question

I have block of AngularJS code that looks like the following:

<ion-list can-swipe="true">
  <ion-item ng-repeat="item in items" simplify-item>
    <div class="row" style="background-color:orange;">
      Hello
    </div>
  </ion-item>
</ion-list>

The directives come from the ionic framework. Still, I am trying to add my own directive to this. I want to set a CSS property via an attribute called "simplify-item". My directive to make this happen looks like this:

myApp.directive('simplifyItem', function() {
  return {
    restrict:'A',
    link: function(element) {
      console.log('linking element');
      if (element === null) {
        console.log('element is null');
      } else {
    var result = element.hasClass('item-complex');
    if (result === null) {
      console.log('result is null.');
    } else {
      console.log('Sweet!');
    }
      }
    }
  };
});

When the line var result = element.hasClass('item-complex'); gets executed, I get an exception. The exception says:

undefined is not a function

I don't understand why I can't do this. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

try like this

myApp.directive('simplifyItem', function() {
  return {
    restrict:'A',
    link: function(scope , iElement, iAttrs) {
     var element = iElement;
      console.log('linking element');
      if (element === null) {
        console.log('element is null');
      } else {
    var result = element.hasClass('item-complex');
    if (result === null) {
      console.log('result is null.');
    } else {
      console.log('Sweet!');
    }
      }
    }
  };
});

explanation from angular docs

Directives that want to modify the DOM typically use the link option. link takes a function with the following signature, function link(scope, element, attrs) { ... } where:

• scope is an Angular scope object.
• element is the jqLite-wrapped element that this directive matches.
• attrs is a hash object with key-value pairs of normalized attribute names and their corresponding attribute values.