In angularjs we are having ng-disabled directive, why ng-enabled directive is not provided by the framework as we are having ng-show and ng-hide
The reason why there is no ngEnabled
directive in Angular is rather semantical - there is simply nothing corresponding to it in HTML specification. At the same time there is already ngDisabled
directive that works with disabled
attribute. For the same reason, there is no ngUnchecked
directive, because there is already ngChecked
that sets/removes checked
attribute.
Now, the reasonable question: why we have both ngShow
and ngHide
then? Well it's just for convenience in this case I guess, because having both ngShow
and ngHide
is not more confusing than ngShow
alone, but at the same time it's very handy to have both.
I am not missing an ng-enabled directive at all and I think it would add little to nothing to the framework.
Inputs are enabled by default and HTML inputs also do not have an enabled attribute, just a disabled. The angular directive sets the HTML disabled attribute, but after evaluating an expression.
You can just write
ng-disabled="!attribute.value"
I think it is pretty readable.
TLDR: Use angular-enabled instead.
The core team expressed their view in this this comment: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/1252#issuecomment-49261373
They will not abide a feature request just because it has many +1-s in order to keep the core bloat free.
However, if you still want to have ng-enabled functionality, btford has created this handy little module just for you: https://github.com/btford/angular-enabled