javascript - Angular 2 passing html to ng-content with bindings

Question

I'm writing angular components for the foundation css framework. I am working on the tabs component, and want to be able to pass some HTML to the <ng-content> of this.

The problem is, I also need to pass html which a user can put bindings on, like this:

PARENT TEMPLATE

<tabs [data]='example'>
    <div> Age <br> {{item.age}} </div>`
</tabs>

TABS COMPONENT

<ul class="tabs" #tabs>
  <li *ngFor="let item of data | async" (click)="tabClick($event)">
      <a>{{item.name}}</a>
  </li>
</ul>
<div>
  <ng-content></ng-content>
</div>

TABS TYPESCRIPT

@Component({
  selector: 'tabs',
  templateUrl: './tabs.component.html'
})

export class TabsComponent {
  @Input('data') data:any;
  @ViewChild('tabs') tabs: ElementRef;
}

Where item is a reference to an object in the example array.

However, I get this error: Cannot read property 'name' of undefined as item is being evaluated before it is inserted into the <ng-content> directive.

Is there a way to get around this limitation, or am I going about this the wrong way?

Answer 1

update Angular 5

ngOutletContext was renamed to ngTemplateOutletContext

See also https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#500-beta5-2017-08-29

original

ngTemplateOutlet or ngForTemplate can be used for that use case:

<tabs [data]='example'>
  <ng-template let-item>
    <div> Age <br> {{item.age}} </div>`
  </ng-template>
</tabs>

@Component({
  ...
  template: `
    <ul class="tabs" #tabs>
      <li *ngFor="let item of data | async" (click)="tabClick($event)">
          <a>{{item.name}}</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
    <div>
      <ng-template [ngTemplateOutlet]="templateRef" [ngTemplateOutletContext]="{$implicit: (data | async)}"></ng-template>
    </div>
  `
})
class TabsComponent {
  @ContentChild(TemplateRef) templateRef:TemplateRef;
}

See also Angular 2 bind transcluded content to loop variable