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Binding Element Attributes

In addition to normal text, you may also want to have your templates contain HTML elements whose attributes are bound to the controller.

For example, imagine your controller has a property that contains a URL to an image:

<div id="logo">
  <img src={{this.logoUrl}} alt="Logo">
</div>

This generates the following HTML:

<div id="logo">
  <img src="http://www.example.com/images/logo.png" alt="Logo">
</div>

If you use data binding with a Boolean value, it will add or remove the specified attribute. For example, given this template:

<input type="checkbox" disabled={{this.isAdministrator}}>

If isAdministrator is true, Handlebars will produce the following HTML element:

<input type="checkbox" disabled>

If isAdministrator is false, Handlebars will produce the following:

<input type="checkbox">

Adding Other Attributes (Including Data Attributes)

By default, components only accept a limited number of HTML attributes. This means that some uncommon but perfectly valid attributes, such as lang or custom data-* attributes must be specifically enabled. For example, this template:

{{#link-to "photos" data-toggle="dropdown" lang="es"}}Fotos{{/link-to}}

Will render the following HTML:

<a id="ember239" class="ember-view" href="#/photos">Fotos</a>

To enable support for these attributes, an attribute binding must be added for each specific attribute on the component. To do this, you can extend the appropriate components in your application. For example, for link-to you would create your own version of this component by extending Ember.LinkComponent

"app/components/link-to/component.js"

import LinkComponent from '@ember/routing/link-component';

export default LinkComponent.extend({
  attributeBindings: ['data-toggle', 'lang']
});

Now the same template above renders the following HTML:

<a id="ember239" class="ember-view" href="#/photos" data-toggle="dropdown" lang="es">Fotos</a>

Adding Other Attributes (Including Data Attributes)