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Using ng-repeat with ng-include to create a recursive table

I've done a bit of research around and I cannot seem to find the best pattern to use ng-repeat recursively to create a deep table. There is some noteworthy mentions here by user mgdelmonte regarding the subject, but alas, no solution.

The HTML and template:

<body ng-app="myApp">
    <div ng-controller="myAppController">

<script type="text/ng-template"  id="tree_item.html">
    <tr style="width:100%">        
        <td>{{data.name}}</td>
    </tr>
    <div ng-repeat="data in data.nodes" ng-include="'tree_item.html'">

    </div>
</script>

<table class="table table-striped">
     <thead>
        <tr>
            <th style="width:30px;">Test</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody ng-repeat="data in treeData" ng-include="'tree_item.html'">

    </tbody>
</table>
</div>
</body>

The JS:

angular.module('myApp', []);

function myAppController($scope) {
    $scope.treeData = [{
        "name": "Root",
        "nodes": [{
            "name": "Level 1",
            "nodes": [{
                "name": "Level 2"
            }]
        }]
    }];
}

Here is my jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/8f3rL/86/

This is the absolute farthest I got with it. It traverses the tree fine, but I'm losing the <tr> tags when it recurses down. Instead it's rendering <span>s.

My intuition is telling me that when the ng-repeat runs on that <div>, it is creating a separate scope for those trs and tds, which I guess are illegal (since they have to be bound to a table element).

Changing the div to a table or tbody or tr is no-op as well (not that I'd even want to nest a table in like that).

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user2857125 Avatar asked Jul 23 '14 06:07

user2857125


1 Answers

The browser doesn't like the multiple tbodys and the div tags between the rows. Try this...

<body ng-app="myApp">
    <div ng-controller="myAppController">

<script type="text/ng-template"  id="tree_item.html">
    <td>{{data.name}}
        <table style="margin-left: 20px">
            <tr ng-repeat="data in data.nodes" ng-include="'tree_item.html'"></tr>
        </table>
    </td>
</script>

<table class="table table-striped">
     <thead>
        <tr>
            <th style="width:30px;">Test</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr style="width:100%" ng-repeat="data in treeData" ng-include="'tree_item.html'"></tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
</div>

Live Demo - Fiddle

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Anthony Chu Avatar answered Nov 15 '22 06:11

Anthony Chu