Reusing code but with custom content

Question

I have a bunch of pages with code for a nice looking footer area for buttons and stuff at the bottom of the page:

<nav class="navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-bottom" role="navigation">
    <div class="container">
        <div class="navbar-inner">
            <footer>
                <a class="btn btn-warning actionButton" href="#/">
                    <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-trash icon-white" />
                    Cancel
                </a>
                <a class="btn btn-primary actionButton" data-ng-click="saveSampleForm(sampleForm)" data-ng-disabled="form.$invalid">
                    <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-ok icon-white" />
                    Save
                </a>
                <div class="version">v{{applicationdata.Version}}</div>
            </footer>
        </div>
    </div>
</nav>

I know about the nginclude tag, but is there a way to reuse the nav portion of this code, but have custom <footer> content? The buttons change from page to page. Maybe a directive? Still learning this stuff... Edit: I know I could add the code for the <footer> content to my $scope and then use {{footerContent}}, but I would prefer to keep html out of my model.

Answer 1

You can certainly do so. Here's an idea using transclusion with directives.

Directive

app.directive('navFooter', function() {
  return {
    templateUrl: 'nav.html',
    replace: true,
    transclude: true,
    restrict: 'E'
  }
})

nav.html

<nav class="navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-bottom" role="navigation">
    <div class="container">
        <div class="navbar-inner">
            <footer ng-transclude>
            </footer>
        </div>
    </div>
</nav>

Usage

<nav-footer>
  <a class="btn btn-warning actionButton" href="#/">
      <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-trash icon-white"></i>
      Cancel
  </a>
  <a class="btn btn-primary actionButton" data-ng-click="saveSampleForm(sampleForm)" data-ng-disabled="form.$invalid">
      <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-ok icon-white"></i>
      Save
  </a>
  <div class="version">v{{applicationdata.Version}}</div>
</nav-footer>

Demo link.