AngularJS Directive Restrict A vs E

I'm working in a small team, building in AngularJS and trying to maintain some basic standards & best practices; especially given we're relatively new with Angular.

My question is with regards to Directives. More accurately, the restrict options.

Some of us are using restrict: 'E' thus having <my-directive></my-directive> in the html.

Others are using restrict: 'A' and having <div my-directive></div> in the html.

Then, of course, you can use restrict: 'EA' and use either of the above.

At the moment it's no big deal, though when this project is as big as it's going to get I would like anybody looking at it to easily understand what's going on.

Are there pros/cons to either the attribute or element way of doing things?

Are there any pitfalls we should know, if choosing say element over attribute?

restrict is for defining the directive type, and it can be A (Attribute), C (Class), E (Element), and M (coMment) , let's assume that the name of the directive is Doc :

Type : Usage

A = <div Doc></div>

C = <div class="Doc"></div>

E = <Doc data="book_data"></Doc>

M = <!--directive:Doc -->

According to the documentation:

When should I use an attribute versus an element? Use an element when you are creating a component that is in control of the template. The common case for this is when you are creating a Domain-Specific Language for parts of your template. Use an attribute when you are decorating an existing element with new functionality.

Edit following comment on pitfalls for a complete answer:

Assuming you're building an app that should run on Internet Explorer <= 8, whom support has been dropped by AngularJS team from AngularJS 1.3, you have to follow the following instructions in order to make it working: https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/ie

The restrict option is typically set to:

• 'A' - only matches attribute name
• 'E' - only matches element name
• 'C' - only matches class name
• 'M' - only matches comment

Here is the documentation link.

Element is not supported in IE8 out of the box you have to do some work to make IE8 accept custom tags.

One advantage of using an attribute over an element is that you can apply multiple directives to the same DOM node. This is particularly handy for things like form controls where you can highlight, disable, or add labels etc. with additional attributes without having to wrap the element in a bunch of tags.