I am new to AngularJs. I am just getting confused why does my code when the value for ng-app is just empty string the Angular directives are working but on the other hand the directives are not working if the its value is not empty string.
What is happening here? My code is below:
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-BVYiiSIFeK1dGmJRAkycuHAHRg32OmUcww7on3RYdg4Va+PmSTsz/K68vbdEjh4u" crossorigin="anonymous">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css" integrity="sha384-rHyoN1iRsVXV4nD0JutlnGaslCJuC7uwjduW9SVrLvRYooPp2bWYgmgJQIXwl/Sp" crossorigin="anonymous">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/loginPage.css">
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.5.6/angular.min.js"></script>
<title>Login</title>
</head>
<body **ng-app="loginApp"** class="body-bg-blue">
<div class="container">
<div class="row"></div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-2"></div>
<div class="col-sm-8">
<div class="jumbotron vertical-center">
<div class="login-form">
<div class="page-header">
<h1>STWEBAPP</h1>
</div>
<div **ng-controller="loginController"**>
<form name="loginForm" ng-submit="login()" role="form">
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" name="username" id="username" ng-model="username" class="form-control" placeholder="User Name" required />
<span ng-show="loginForm.username.$dirty && loginForm.username.$error.required" class="help-block">Username is required</span>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<input type="password" name="password" id="password" ng-model="password" class="form-control" placeholder="Password" required />
<span ng-show="loginForm.password.$dirty && loginForm.password.$error.required" class="help-block">Password is required</span>
</div>
<div class="checkbox">
<label><input type="checkbox"> Remember me</label>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<button type="submit" ng-disabled="form.$invalid || dataLoading" class="btn-danger">Login</button>
<img ng-if="dataLoading" src="data:image/gif;base64,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"/>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-2"></div>
</div>
<div class="row"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I assume you are talking about ng-app directive, if you declare
ng-app
int he application with a name , you need the module to be declared.DEMO