[javascript] Angular.js: set element height on page load

I'm AngularJS newbie. I want to create grid (using ng-grid) which height depends on window height ie. $('.gridStyle').height($(window).height() - 100);

I have written directive:

app.directive('resize', function($window) {

    return function(scope, element) {

        function applyHeight() {
            scope.height = $window.innerHeight;
            $('.gridStyle').height(scope.height - 100);
        }

        angular.element($window).bind('resize', function() {
            scope.$apply(function() {
                applyHeight();
            });
        });

        applyHeight();
    };
});

This works well when I resize browser window but style is not applied when site is loaded for the first time. Where can I put code to initalize height?

angular.element(document).ready(function () {
    //your logic here
});

Combining matty-j suggestion with the snippet of the question, I ended up with this code focusing on resizing the grid after the data was loaded.

The HTML:

<div ng-grid="gridOptions" class="gridStyle"></div>

The directive:

angular.module('myApp.directives', [])
    .directive('resize', function ($window) {
        return function (scope, element) {

            var w = angular.element($window);
            scope.getWindowDimensions = function () {
                return { 'h': w.height(), 'w': w.width() };
            };
            scope.$watch(scope.getWindowDimensions, function (newValue, oldValue) {

                // resize Grid to optimize height
                $('.gridStyle').height(newValue.h - 250);
            }, true);

            w.bind('resize', function () {
                scope.$apply();
            });
        }
    });

The controller:

angular.module('myApp').controller('Admin/SurveyCtrl', function ($scope, $routeParams, $location, $window, $timeout, Survey) {

    // Retrieve data from the server
    $scope.surveys = Survey.query(function(data) {

        // Trigger resize event informing elements to resize according to the height of the window.
        $timeout(function () {
            angular.element($window).resize();
        }, 0)
    });

    // Configure ng-grid.
    $scope.gridOptions = {
        data: 'surveys',
        ...
    };
}

To avoid check on every digest cycle, we can change the height of the div when the window height gets changed.

http://jsfiddle.net/zbjLh/709/

<div ng-app="miniapp" resize>
  Testing
</div>

.

var app = angular.module('miniapp', []);

app.directive('resize', function ($window) {
    return function (scope, element) {
        var w = angular.element($window);
        var changeHeight = function() {element.css('height', (w.height() -20) + 'px' );};  
            w.bind('resize', function () {        
              changeHeight();   // when window size gets changed             
        });  
        changeHeight(); // when page loads          
    }
})

A slight improvement to Bizzard's excellent answer. Supports width-offset and/or height-offset on the element, to determine how much will be subtracted from the width/height, and prevents negative dimensions.

 <div resize height-offset="260" width-offset="100">

directive:

app.directive('resize', ['$window', function ($window) {
    return function (scope, element) {
        var w = angular.element($window);
        var heightOffset = parseInt(element.attr('height-offset'));
        var widthOffset = parseInt(element.attr('width-offset'));
        var changeHeight = function () {
            if (!isNaN(heightOffset) && w.height() - heightOffset > 0)
                element.css('height', (w.height() - heightOffset) + 'px');
            if (!isNaN(widthOffset) && w.width() - widthOffset > 0)
                element.css('width', (w.width() - widthOffset) + 'px');
        };
        w.bind('resize', function () {
            changeHeight();
        });
        changeHeight();
    }
}]);

Edit This is actually a silly way of doing it in modern browsers. CSS3 has calc, which allows the calculation to be specified in CSS, like this:

#myDiv {
 width: calc(100% - 200px);
 height: calc(100% - 120px);
}

http://caniuse.com/#search=calc

My solution if your ng-grid depend of element parent(div, layout) :

directive

myapp.directive('sizeelement', function ($window) {
return{
    scope:true,
    priority: 0,
    link: function (scope, element) {
        scope.$watch(function(){return $(element).height(); }, function(newValue, oldValue) {
            scope.height=$(element).height();
        });
    }}
})

sample html

<div class="portlet  box grey" style="height: 100%" sizeelement>
    <div class="portlet-title">
        <h4><i class="icon-list"></i>Articles</h4>
    </div>
    <div class="portlet-body" style="height:{{height-34}}px">
        <div class="gridStyle" ng-grid="gridOrderLine" ="min-height: 250px;"></div>
    </div>
</div>

height-34 : 34 is fix height of my title div, you can fix other height.

It is easy directive but it work fine.

$(document).ready(function() {
       scope.$apply(function() {
                applyHeight();
            });
});

This also ensures that all the scripts have been loaded before the execution of the statements. If you dont need that you can use

$(window).load(function() {
       scope.$apply(function() {
                applyHeight();
            });
});

It seems you require the following plugin: https://github.com/yearofmoo/AngularJS-Scope.onReady

It basically gives you the functionality to run your directive code after the your scope or data is loaded i.e. $scope.$whenReady