[angularjs] AngularJS - Find Element with attribute

Your use-case isn't clear. However, if you are certain that you need this to be based on the DOM, and not model-data, then this is a way for one directive to have a reference to all elements with another directive specified on them.

The way is that the child directive can require the parent directive. The parent directive can expose a method that allows direct directive to register their element with the parent directive. Through this, the parent directive can access the child element(s). So if you have a template like:

<div parent-directive>
  <div child-directive></div>
  <div child-directive></div>
</div>

Then the directives can be coded like:

app.directive('parentDirective', function($window) {
  return {
    controller: function($scope) {
      var registeredElements = [];
      this.registerElement = function(childElement) {
        registeredElements.push(childElement);
      }
    }
  };
});

app.directive('childDirective', function() {
  return {
    require: '^parentDirective',
    template: '<span>Child directive</span>',
    link: function link(scope, iElement, iAttrs, parentController) {
      parentController.registerElement(iElement);
    }
   };
});

You can see this in action at http://plnkr.co/edit/7zUgNp2MV3wMyAUYxlkz?p=preview