AngularJS - Value attribute on an input text box is ignored when there is a ng-model used?
That's desired behavior, you should define the model in the controller, not in the view.
<div ng-controller="Main"> <input type="text" ng-model="rootFolders"></div>function Main($scope) { $scope.rootFolders = 'bob';}
Vojta described the "Angular way", but if you really need to make this work, @urbanek recently posted a workaround using ng-init:
<input type="text" ng-model="rootFolders" ng-init="rootFolders='Bob'" value="Bob">https://groups.google.com/d/msg/angular/Hn3eztNHFXw/wk3HyOl9fhcJ
Overriding the input directive does seem to do the job. I made some minor alterations to Dan Hunsaker's code:
- Added a check for ngModel before trying to use
$parse().assign()on fields without a ngModel attributes. - Corrected the
assign()function param order.
app.directive('input', function ($parse) { return { restrict: 'E', require: '?ngModel', link: function (scope, element, attrs) { if (attrs.ngModel && attrs.value) { $parse(attrs.ngModel).assign(scope, attrs.value); } } };});