Calling order of link function in nested and repeated angularjs directives

Question

I\'m fairly new to Javascript programming and I have only touched upon AngularJS. In order to evaluate it I decided to write a simple note application. The model is really s

Answer 1

Quoting Josh D. Miller who had kindly responded to a similar question I had :

" Just a couple of technical notes. Assume that you have this markup:

Now AngularJS will create the directives by running directive functions in a certain order:

directive1: compile

directive2: compile

directive1: controller

directive1: pre-link

directive2: controller

directive2: pre-link

directive2: post-link

directive1: post-link

By default a straight "link" function is a post-link, so your outer directive1's link function will not run until after the inner directive2's link function has ran. That's why we say that it's only safe to do DOM manipulation in the post-link. "