How do I get current scope dom-element in AngularJS controller?

Question

I have a list of outerItems. Inside each outerItem, I have a list of innerItems. They are dynamically sorted.

When mouse cursor points at one of innerItems, I have to show the popup window right above that innerItem element.

Popup div is body's child, because I do not want to have a separate popup for each of innerItems.

The way as I see it — on ng-mouseover I call the function that sets left/top properties to my absolutely positioned popup. So for each of innerItems I'd like to call jQuery .offset() method that gives me left/top values from the top-left corner of page.

So how can I get jQuery object of current scope element? Or, if I've chosen the wrong way

Answer 1

In controller:

function innerItem($scope, $element){     var jQueryInnerItem = $($element);  }