Scope binding not working in modal popup angularjs

Issue

I am using angular to bind data to my UI which works perfectly well. But when a modal popup is called on button click, the binding in the modal does not work.

<div class="modal-dialog">
        <div class="modal-content">
            <div class="modal-header">
                <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">&times;</button>
                <h4 class="modal-title">{{checkItem}}</h4>
            </div>
            <div class="modal-body">

            </div>
            <div class="modal-footer">
                <button ng-click="saveClient()" class="btn btn-primary pull-right btn-tabkey"><i class="fa fa-save"></i>Save</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;
                <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal" ng-click="focusInput=false"><i class="fa fa-ban"></i>Cancel</button>
            </div>
        </div>
        <!-- /.modal-content -->
    </div>

Angular:

angular.module('myModule').controller('myController', ["$rootScope", "$scope", "$filter", "dataService", function ($rootScope, $scope, $filter, dataService) {

    $scope.checkItem = "";

    $scope.loadEditForm = function () {
        $scope.checkItem = "yes";
        $("#modal-form-edit").modal();
    };


}]);

Solution

Seems like you are opening the modal using plain jQuery approach. This is not going to work in Angular, because opened modal is not connected to Angular application, so it doesn't know that modal has to be handled, HTML parsed, etc.

Instead you should use directives properly, or in case of modal dialog you can simply use existent ones, like Angular UI project, which brings ready Bootstrap directives for Angular. In your case you need $modal service.

The usage then would be very simple:

// remember to add ui.bootstrap module dependency
angular.module('myModule', ['ui.bootstrap']); 

angular.module('myModule').controller('myController', ["$rootScope", "$scope", "$filter", "$modal", "dataService", function ($rootScope, $scope, $filter, $modal, dataService) {

    $scope.checkItem = "";

    $scope.loadEditForm = function () {
        $scope.checkItem = "yes";
        $modal.open({
            templateUrl: 'modal.html',
            controller: 'modalController',
            scope: $scope
        });
    };

}]);

Demo: http://plnkr.co/edit/kQz0fiaXLv7T37N8fzJU?p=preview

Answered By - dfsq