Angular 2 and webpack: unexpected closing tag “a”

Question

I have this Angular 2 template which display tabs of my Web site:

<div id="menu">
    <ul id="tabs">
        <li *ngFor="let tab of tabs; let i = index" [class.active]="selectedTab===i">
            <a routerLink="/private/home/{{i}}">{{tab}}</a>
        </li>
    </ul>
</div>

<div class="tabContent">
    <span *ngIf="selectedTab==0"><welcome></welcome></span>
    <span *ngIf="selectedTab==1"><boiler></boiler></span>
</div>

It works perfectly well. Then, I try to use Webpack with default option to create unique *.js file: it still works. Finally, in Webpack, I active the option to minimize the .js file and I get this error:

Unexpected closing tag "a" (" of tabs; let i = index" [class.active]="selectedTab===i">
<a routerlink=/private/home/{{i}}>{{tab}}[ERROR ->]</a> </li> </ul> </div>                 
<div class=tabContent> <span *ngif="selectedTab==0"><welcome></welcome></span")

Any idea on this error ?

Here the related code generated by Webpack:

function(t,e){t.exports='<div id=menu> <ul id=tabs> <li *ngfor="let tab of tabs; 
let i = index" [class.active]="selectedTab===i"> 
<a routerlink=/private/home/{{i}}>{{tab}}</a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class=tabContent> 
<span *ngif="selectedTab==0"><welcome></welcome></span> <span *ngif="selectedTab==1">
<boiler></boiler></span> </div>'}

Answer 1

I guess the issue is with the htmlLoader . Depending on your webpack version you should set the minimize option to false in your webpack configuration.

webpack 1 (inside the root of your configuration)

htmlLoader: {
    minimize: false
},

webpack 2

plugins: [
    new webpack.LoaderOptionsPlugin({
        options : {
            htmlLoader : {
                minimize : false
            }
        }
    })

]

Answer 2

/private/home/{{i}} -> this is not in "".

try this for routerLink

<a [routerLink]="['/private/home/',i]">{{tab}}</a>