How to pass a string value to a component in angular2

Question

I'd like to pass a string value to a component in angular2, but it doesn't work with the default binding. I'm thinking of something similar to this:

<component [inputField]="string"></component>

Unfortunately, only expressions are allowed on the right side of the assignment. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

String literals can be passed in different ways:

<component inputField="string"></component>
<component [inputField]="'string'"></component>
<component inputField="{{'string'}}"></component>

Answer 2

You can pass a string by enclosing the string in quotes

<component [inputField]="'string'"></component>

Answer 3

To include a single quote (and possibly other special HTML characters) in the string literal the first option works while those that use single quotes to wrap the literal fail with parse errors. For example:

<component inputField="John&#39;s Value"></component>

Will output "John's Value" correctly.