angular.element

Wraps a raw DOM element or HTML string as jQuery element. angular.element is either an alias for jQuery function if jQuery is loaded or a function that wraps the element or string in angular's jQuery lite implementation.

Real jQuery always takes precedence (as long as it was loaded before DOMContentEvent)

Angular's jQuery lite implementation is a tiny API-compatible subset of jQuery which allows angular to manipulate DOM. The jQuery lite implements only a subset of jQuery api, with the focus on the most commonly needed functionality and minimal footprint. For this reason only a limited number of jQuery methods, arguments and invocation styles are supported.

NOTE: All element references in angular are always wrapped with jQuery (lite) and are never raw DOM references.

Angular's jQuery lite implements these functions:

• addClass()
• after()
• append()
• attr()
• bind()
• children()
• clone()
• css()
• data()
• hasClass()
• parent()
• remove()
• removeAttr()
• removeClass()
• removeData()
• replaceWith()
• text()
• trigger()

Additionally these methods extend the jQuery and are available in both jQuery and jQuery lite

version:

• scope() - retrieves the current angular scope of the element.

angular.element(element);