I'm styling a checkbox as a button by placing it inside it's label
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="...">
</label>
I need to toggle the parent label's class based on whether the checkbox is checked. Now, this would be easy using [ngClass] and a boolean. The problem is, I'm also looping the elements with an *ngFor directive. This apparently used to work in Angular 1.x.x, but in Angular 2/4/... it adds/removes the class for all elements that are repeated. This could easily be solved by accessing the parent DOM elements classList directly, but this is considered a bad practise in Angular. Is there any Angular way to do this or do I have to change my approach completely?
EDIT: my code EDIT 2: Wrong code, fixed.
<label *ngFor="let item of object.array" [ngClass]="{'label-active': checked}">
{{item}}
<input (click)= "checked = !checked" type="checkbox" name="..." id="..." class="sr-only">
</label>
Maintain a checked state for each item of the array that you iterate over using *ngFor
in an array of the same size (this.checked
in my example), or as property of the items in the data array this.object.array
export class MyComponent {
object;
someMethod() {
this.object = {};
this.object.array = someData; // whereever you get that data
this.checked = new Arrray(this.object.array.length);
this.checked.fill(false);
}
}
<label *ngFor="let item of object.array; let i=index"
[class.label-active]="checked[i]">
{{item}}
<input (click)= "checked[i] = !checked[i]" type="checkbox" name="..." id="..." class="sr-only">
<!-- or -->
<input [(ngModel)]="checked[i]" type="checkbox" name="..." id="..." class="sr-only">
</label>