Question
I'm currently looking at this start tutorial
video
for angular.js
At some moment (after 12'40"), the speaker states that the attributes ng-app
and data-ng-app="" are more or less equivalent inside the <html> tag, and
so are ng-model="my_data_binding and data-ng-model="my_data_binding".
However The speaker says the html would be validated through different
validators, depending on which attribute is used.
Could you explain the difference between the two ways, ng- prefix against
data-ng- prefix ?
Answer
Good question. The difference is simple - there is absolutely no difference
between the two except that certain HTML5 validators will throw an error
on a property like ng-app, but they don't throw an error for anything
prefixed with data-, like data-ng-app.
So to answer your question, use data-ng-app if you would like validating
your HTML to be a bit easier.
Fun fact: You can also use x-ng-app to the same effect.
