How to find directive name for given DOM element

Question

Suppose you have some custom directive myDirectiveA and associated controller myControllerA with replace : true - it means that your custom directive name will not appear in DOM tree.

How to find a directive name in this case?

(Something like angular.element($0)... ?)

PS I know that replace:true is deprecated.

Answer 1

I still haven't found a way to do this, so I assume it's not possible. However, it's possible to get controller:

angular.element($0).controller()

or a component's controller

angular.element($0).scope().$ctrl