Following code snippet does not work Please suggest any other way of doing it
<html>
`<div id="tablediv" ng-model="ngtable">
<div ng-show="ngtable">
<div ng-if="currentdevicetype == 'condition1'">
<!-- Other code to display contents -->
</div>`
</div>
</div>
</html>
Yes you can, Both are different.
ng-show
sets the display:none of the element when expression evaluates to false while ng-if removes the element from the DOM when the expression evaluates to false
Check out this question to know the differences between ng-show and ng-if & where and How to use them:
In your html code , you are using something wrong, because you are using ng-model for a div .
<html>
<div id="tablediv" ng-model="ngtable">
<div ng-show="ngtable">
<div ng-if="currentdevicetype == 'condition1'">
<!-- Other code to display contents -->
</div>
</div>
</div>
</html>
ng-model is used to bind the value of any inputbox/textarea/select like tags, you can not bind any value like this:
<div id="tablediv" ng-model="ngtable">
if you remove this ng-model then your code would be like this:
<html>
<div id="tablediv">
<div ng-show="ngtable">
<div ng-if="currentdevicetype == 'condition1'">
<!-- Other code to display contents -->
</div>
</div>
</div>
</html>
Now, if ngtable have some value it means ng-show=true then
<div ng-show=true>
// all the elements are visible on the DOM.
</div>
but , if if ngtable do not have any value it means ng-show=false then :
<div ng-show=false>
// all the elements are not visible on the DOM.
</div>
And inside this code:
<div ng-if="currentdevicetype == 'condition1'">
<!-- Other code to display contents -->
</div>
if ng-if="currentdevicetype == 'condition1'" returns true then all the elements would be create, otherwise element will not be created.
