Dynamically set attribute on component in html template angular 2

Question

I am trying to set an attribute on a component if a certain expression is true. Could someone give me an example?

What I have now:

 <div [danger]="inArray(choice.likers, user, id)"></div>

but this does not compile.

inArray is my own method which returns true or false. What I would like to see is, if the expression returns true, the output will be

<div danger></div>

In angular 1 there was this: ng-attr-... statement that did exactly the above.

Nate Anderson · Accepted Answer · 2021-12-12 17:07:04Z

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To set an attribute use attribute binding:

 <div [attr.danger]="inArray(choice.likers, user, id)"></div>

If you want to show a empty attribute conditionally return empty string or null in inArray():

inArray() { let value; if (isInArray) { value = ''; } else { value = null; } return value; }

so the attribute will empty or the danger attribute dont exist. The result is:

<div danger></div>

edited Dec 12, 2021 at 17:07

Nate Anderson

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answered May 28, 2016 at 11:26

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Bram Over a year ago

Thank you for your comment muetzerich. This code allows me to set the value of the attribute dynamically but what I would like to achieve is to set the attribute itself.

Bram Over a year ago

To clarify: the output with your code is: danger="true", but I would like to only set the attribute not give it a value.

muetzerich Over a year ago

try this [attr.danger]="inArray(choice.likers, user, id) ? true : null" -> null remove the danger attribute

Bram Over a year ago

I am sorry to say but still the same problem: danger="true". Seems like this is not working for attributes. Although I found an example in the docs that does work [disabled]. I will try to create a plunkr.

Bram Over a year ago

an empty string '' instead of true seems to do the trick. Thanks!

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