Order of execution of directive functions in AngularJS

Question

What is the order of execution of directive functions? The documentation doesn\'t seem to address this.

Ex

1. template / templateUrl (is evaluated)

Answer 1

Pre-linking function: Executed before the child elements are linked. Not safe to do DOM transformation since the compiler linking function will fail to locate the correct elements for linking.

Post-linking function: Executed after the child elements are linked. It is safe to do DOM transformation in the post-linking function.

Above excerpt is taken from the official docs on directives.

So, to answer your question, Post-linking/Link function is when/where you can safely operate on element.children().