ngTeleport

 

Example: https://ng-teleport.herokuapp.com/

All in all, ngTeleport has similar functionality to ngTransclude, but ngTeleport allows you to uproot a piece of the DOM and place it elsewhere. However, ngTeleport is entirely Angular.js aware and therefore sets up the scope and interpolation for you.

Note: Using ngTeleport to move elements around the DOM for responsiveness is no longer recommended – use Flexbox instead. For cases where you require the same functionality for non-supported browsers explain to your CTO that complicating the codebase's architecture to support a handful of antiquated browsers is absurd.

Getting Started

First of all you need to define the ng-teleport attribute with a unique identifier for the scope on any DOM element you wish to teleport – this allows ngTeleport to take a note of the precompiled HTML. Once you've defined the ng-teleport you're free to move it around wherever you wish. Simply add teleport to your directive, and invoke it with the source (DOM node with the ng-teleport attribute), target, and any additional options.

<section ng-teleport="myElement">

</section>

With the above code section is now all ready to be teleported anywhere in the DOM where there is a valid Angular scope.

teleport(sectionElement, someOtherNode);

Uses Case

When using ngTeleport it's crucial that you don't over-complicate your code. Remember that there might always be a better solution for doing what you want to do.

One prominent use case that ngTeleport is in a responsive design – upon changing the browser window, you may want to shuffle the DOM elements around based on media queries, which is precisely what ngTeleport allows you to do in an Angular environment.

Options

Option	Type	Default	Result
duplicate	Boolean	false	Instead of removing the source DOM it instead creates a copy of it.
retainScope	Boolean	false	Retain the original scope of the node even though it's a child of another scope – not recommended due to complexity).
insertion	String	append	Can either be append or prepend depending on what you're looking for.