ngClass style with dash in key
I hope this saves someone a headache with styles that use dashes, especially since bootstrap has become so popular.
I am using angular 1.0.5 by way of
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.0.5/angular.js"></script>
In the ngClass documentation, the example is simple, but it also mentions the expression can be a map of class names to boolean values. I was trying to use the "icon-white" style on my icon as shown in the bootstrap documentation, depending on a boolean variable.
<i class="icon-home" ng-class="{icon-white: someBooleanValue}">
The line above does not work. The class is not appended with icon-white
when someBooleanValue
is true. However, if I change the key to iconWhite
, it is successfully added to the list of class values. How would one add a value with a dash?
After hours of hacking around, it turns out the dash gets interpolated! Quotes are needed.
<i class="icon-home" ng-class="{'icon-white': someBooleanValue}">
I hope this helps someone from tearing their hair out.
UPDATE:
In older versions of Angular, using a backslash also does the trick, but not in the newer versions.
<i class="icon-home" ng-class="{icon\-white: someBooleanValue}">
The former is probably preferred, since you can more easily search for it in your favorite editor.
\'icon-white\'
works as well (with AngularJS 1.2.7)