Angular expression inside style attribute don't work in IE

Question

I have angular 1.0.6 (I know it's old) and I have style attribute with expressions:

<li style="background-color: {{item.color}}">
   <span style="color: {{item.color | contrastColor}}">{{item.label}}</span>
</li>

It work fine but not for IE (The app need to work for >IE10). When I open Developer tool the style attribute is not present. I've try to create custom style directive (because I tought that IE remove invalid attribute before Angular can read it) but with this simple code, I've got an error TypeError: Cannot read property 'replace' of undefined from jquery (tested on google chrome) because in my case item.color can be null

.directive("logStyle", function() {
    // logStyle directive
    return {
        restrict: 'A',
        link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
           element.css(scope.$eval(attrs.logStyle));
        }
    };
});

How can I make it work. I know that there is ngStyle but it's not quite what I need.

Answer 1

Ok, try this but I'm not sure if I fully understand what your trying to do

<div ng-controller="appCtrl">
<ul>
    <li ng-repeat="item in items" ng-style="{'background-color': item.color}">
        <span ng-style="{ 'color': (item.color | contrastColor) }">{{ item.label }}</span>
    </li>
</ul>
</div>

Edited the html, couldn't test this on IE last night so had to wait until today. IE seemingly doesn't like the style attribute with {{ }} binding inside so it deletes it from the DOM. I found this issue https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/2186 and there is a plunkr with the fix given.

Answer 2

For me changing style to ng-attr-style solved the issue. Tested in IE and Chrome. Hope this helps someone else.

You can use {{ }} like this:

ng-attr-style="color:{{entity.status | statusColor}};" 

Answer 3

IE browser is not able to parse angular expression with style attribute so You should use ng-style instead of style to resolve this problem.

Answer 4

changing style to ng-attr-style resolves the issue and works fine in all the browsers