Binding an event to $(document) inside an angular directive

Question

I have a directive which implements kind of a select box.
Now when the select box is open and I click somewhere outside of it(anywhere else in the document) I need it to collapse.

This JQuery code works inside my directive, but I want to do it "the angular way":

  $(document).bind('click', function (e) {
       var $clicked = e.target;
       if (!$clicked.parents().hasClass("myClass")) {
            scope.colapse();
       }
  });

I tried doing thing with injecting the $document service into my directive but didn't succeed.

Actually you write directives when you want to play with /manipulate DOM. So I guess attaching above event handler in your directive is the correct way or rather Angular way of doing such things — Shailesh Vaishampayan, Jun 23 '14 at 10:26
I didn't have any problems. I was looking for the best practice solution as Yuriy Rozhovetskiy gave. — Amir Popovich, Jun 23 '14 at 11:11
See here for Angular2 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35080387/dynamically-add-event-listener-in-angular-2 — Ecropolis, Jul 13 '18 at 19:13

score 18 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 23 '14 at 10:52

I believe, the most true Angular way is to use angular.element instead of jQuery and accessing window.document via the $document service:

(function() {

  angular.module('myApp').directive('myDocumentClick', 
    ['$window', '$document', '$log',
    function($window, $document, $log) {
      return {
        restrict: 'A',
        link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
          $document.bind('click', function(event) {
            $log.info(event);
            if (angular.element(event.target).hasClass('myClass')) {
              $window.alert('Foo!');
            }
          })
        }
      };
    }
  ]);

})();

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Binding an event to $(document) inside an angular directive

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