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Expressions in angular.js

In this article, I will explain about expressions in angular.js. Like ng-bind, expressions are also used for binding application data to HTML controls.

Syntax

{{expression}}

Binding numbers

Consider the following code

<div ng-app>            
            <p>Binding numbers {{5+11}}</p>
</div>

Here I am using expressions to bind numbers. When you execute this code in the browser you see the following

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Binding strings

You can bind strings either by using string constants or by using HTML controls.

<div ng-app>            
            <p>Binding strings {{"My Name is Gyan"}}</p>
</div>

And the output will be

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For binding HTML control, you can use the following code

<div ng-app>            
            <input type="text" ng-model="name" />
            <p> {{name}}</p>
</div>

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If you compare the preceding 2 code snippets you can check that if we are passing a constant value in expressions then it should be passed in double quotes. Without quotes, expression is treated as application variable.

Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Wednesday, May 27, 2015

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