javascript - AngularJS ng-repeat with no html element

Question

I am currently using this piece of code to render a list:

<ul ng-cloak>
    <div ng-repeat="n in list">
        <li><a href="{{ n[1] }}">{{ n[0] }}</a></li>
        <li class="divider"></i>
    </div>
    <li>Additional item</li> 
</ul>

However, the <div> element is causing some very minor rendering defects on some browsers. I would like to know is there a way to do the ng-repeat without the div container, or some alternative method to achieve the same effect.

Answer 1

As Andy Joslin said they were working on comment based ng-repeats but apparently there were too many browser issues. Fortunately AngularJS 1.2 adds built-in support for repeating without adding child elements with the new directives ng-repeat-start and ng-repeat-end.

Here's a little example for adding Bootstrap pagination:

<ul class="pagination">
  <li>
    <a href="#">&laquo;</a>
  </li>
  <li ng-repeat-start="page in [1,2,3,4,5,6]"><a href="#">{{page}}</a></li>
  <li ng-repeat-end class="divider"></li>
  <li>
    <a href="#">&raquo;</a>
  </li>
</ul>

A full working example can be found here.

John Lindquist also has a video tutorial of this over at his excellent egghead.io page.