angularjs - refresh when clicked on link with actual url

Question

I use routeProvider to define controlers and templates for my urls.

When I click on the link, which has the same url as is the actual location, nothing happens. I w

Answer 1

I think it's a simpler approach.

.directive ('a', function ($route, $location) {
    var d = {};
    d.restrict = 'E';
    d.link = function (scope, elem, attrs) {

        // has target
        if ('target' in attrs) return;

        // doesn't have href
        if (!('href' in attrs)) return;

        // href is not the current path
        var href = elem [0].href;
        elem.bind ('click', function () {
            if (href !== $location.absUrl ()) return;
            $route.reload ();
        });
    };
    return d;
});

Assuming You want to make all basic links (without target attribute) reload on click and You use relative links in the href attribute (e.g. /home instead of http://example.com/home) You don't have to add any special markup to your HTML (comes handy when updating a site with HTML already written).