Can Knockout.js bindings apply to container tags AND descendants both?

Question

Let me setup the question with a simple case.

I have an HTML table, the rows of which are controlled by an observableArray. It works great.

If the observable

Answer 1

The Knockout-Repeat binding applies the binding to the element itself. It does so by using a node preprocessor to wrap elements with the repeat binding in virtual (comment-based) elements at run time.

var vm = {
  contacts: ko.observableArray()
};

ko.applyBindings(vm);

setTimeout(function() {
  vm.contacts(['One', 'Two', 'Three']);
}, 2500);

  

    

      
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