Adding ng-click event with jQuery

Question

Being new to Angularjs, I need a bit of help with this issue. I am attempting to add ng-click="getGallery(57)" to a modal tab. Adding via jQuery is not the issue, however I realize when I do this, Angular is not compiling the newly added ng-click. I have a simple controller

function imageGalleryCtrl ($scope, $http) {

    //get gallery info on click
    $scope.getGallery = function(id)
    {
        $http.post('/beta/images/get_images',{'id': id}).success(function(data)
    {
        $scope.images = data.thisGal_images;
        $scope.images.galID = id;
    });
    };

}

I add the ng-click to the element with jQuery

//Edit image tab to use angularjs
$('#image_edit a').attr('ng-click','getGallery(' + settings.id + ')');

How do I force Angular to compile this newly added ng-click?

Thanks!

HTML Modal:

This is the modal that is called when the gallery name is clicked.

<div class="modal fade hide modal-creator" id="imageUploader" tabindex="-1" data-focus-on="input:first">
    <div class="modal-header">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"></button>
        <h3>Create New Gallery</h3>
    </div>
    <div class="modal-body">
            <ul id="myTab" class="nav nav-tabs">
                <li id="image_home" class="">
                    <a href="#home" data-toggle="tab">Home</a>
                </li>
                <li id="image_upload" class="">
                    <a href="#upload" data-toggle="tab">Upload Image Gallery</a>
                </li>
                <li id="image_edit" class="">
                    <a href="#edit" data-toggle="tab">Edit Image Gallery</a>
                </li>
            </ul>

            <div id="myTabContent" class="tab-content">

                <div class="tab-pane fade in" id="home">
                    <?php include('create.php'); ?>
                </div>

                <div class="tab-pane fade" id="upload">
                    <?php include('upload.php'); ?>
                </div>

                <div class="tab-pane fade" id="edit">
                    <div class="span9">
                <ul id="imageSort" class="gallery-container">
                <li ng-repeat="image in images">
                <img ng-src="http://images.onlinealbumproofing.com/imageGallery/{{image.galleryID}}/{{image.imageName}}" alt="">
                {{image.orgName}}
                </li>
                 </ul>
               </div><!-- /span9 -->
                </div><!-- /row -->
                </div>

            </div>

    </div><!-- /modal-body -->

    <div class="modal-footer">
        <a href="javascript:;" class="btn" data-dismiss="modal">Close</a>
        <a href="javascript:;" id="next" class="btn btn-primary">Next</a>
    </div>

</div>

Update

So really attempting to do this the Angular way, and after some studies here is where I am at. The controller is the same as above and I have updated the tabs on the modal as follows.

<div class="modal-body">
            <ul id="myTab" class="nav nav-tabs">
                <li id="image_home" class="">
                    <a href="#home" data-toggle="tab">Home</a>
                </li>
                <li id="image_upload" class="">
                    <a href="#upload" data-toggle="tab">Upload Image Gallery</a>
                </li>
                <li id="image_edit" class="">
                    <a ng-click="getGallery(57)" href="#edit" data-toggle="tab">Edit Image Gallery</a>
                </li>
            </ul>

If I hard code the ng-click as above, the tab updates as expected. What I am trying to make happen, is when the modal is called, (#image_edit a) gets a defined ng-click="getGallery(id). I need to tell Angular to look at the ng-click again for the id.

Answer 1

Although I too think that you should try and find another approach, the answer to your question

How do I force Angular to compile this newly added ng-click?

is

// remove and reinsert the element to force angular
// to forget about the current element
$('#button1').replaceWith($('#button1'));

// change ng-click
$('#button1').attr('ng-click','exec2()');

// compile the element
$compile($('#button1'))($scope);

See this working example: http://plnkr.co/edit/SgvQzaY0TyFHD1Mf0c3F?p=preview