How to dynamically change header based on AngularJS partial view

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I am using ng-view to include AngularJS partial views  and I want to update the page title and h1 header tags based on the included view  These are out of scope of the partial view controllers though  and so I can t figure out how to bind them to data set in the controllers   If it was ASP NET MVC you could use  ViewBag to do this  but I don t know the equivalent in AngularJS  I ve searched about shared services  events etc but still can t get it working  Any way to modify my example so it works would be much appreciated    My HTML    lt html data-ng-app  myModule  gt   lt head gt   lt  -- include js files -- gt   lt title gt  lt  -- should changed when ng-view changes -- gt  lt  title gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt   lt h1 gt  lt  -- should changed when ng-view changes -- gt  lt  h1 gt    lt div data-ng-view gt  lt  div gt    lt  body gt   lt  html gt    My JavaScript   var myModule   angular module  myModule        myModule config    routeProvider   function  routeProvider         routeProvider          when   test1    templateUrl   test1 html   controller  Test1Ctrl            when   test2    templateUrl   test2 html   controller  Test2Ctrl            otherwise  redirectTo    test1           function Test1Ctrl  scope   http     scope header    Test 1                                           how can I put this in title and h1      function Test2Ctrl  scope   http     scope header    Test 2

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You could define controller at the  lt html gt  level     lt html ng-app  app  ng-controller  titleCtrl  gt      lt head gt        lt title gt    Page title      lt  title gt         You create service  Page and modify from controllers   myModule factory  Page   function        var title    default      return        title  function     return title          setTitle  function newTitle    title   newTitle               Inject Page and Call  Page setTitle    from controllers   Here is the concrete example   http   plnkr co edit 0e7T6l

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While others may have better methods  I was able to use  rootScope in my controllers  as each of my views templates has a distinct controller  You will need to inject the  rootScope in each controller  While this may not be ideal  it is functioning for me  so I thought I should pass it along  If you inspect the page  it adds the ng-binding to the title tag   Example Controller   myapp controller  loginPage      scope     rootScope   function   scope   rootScope        Dynamic Page Title and Description  rootScope pageTitle    Login to Vote    rootScope pageDescription    This page requires you to login          Example Index html header    lt meta name  viewport  content  width device-width  initial-scale 1 0  maximum-scale 1 0  user-scalable no    gt   lt meta name  description  content    pageDescription    gt   lt meta name  author  content    gt   lt link rel  shortcut icon  href        assets ico favicon ico  gt   lt base href     gt   lt title gt   pageTitle   lt  title gt    You can also set the pageTitle and pageDescription to dynamic values  such as returning data from a REST call        scope article   restCallSingleArticle get   articleID   routeParams articleID    function            Dynamic Page Title and Description      rootScope pageTitle    scope article articletitle       rootScope pageDescription    scope article articledescription        Again  others may have better ideas on how to approach this  but since I am using a pre-rendering  my needs are being met

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For scenarios that you don t have an ngApp that contains the title tag  just inject a service to controllers that need to set the window title   var app   angular module  MyApp         app controller  MyController   function  scope  SomeService  Title       var serviceData   SomeService get        Title set  Title of the page about     serviceData firstname        app factory  SomeService   function   window        return           get  function                return   firstname    Joe                           app factory  Title   function   window        return           set  function val                window document title   val                         Working example    http   jsfiddle net 8m379 1

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jkoreska s solution is perfect if you know the titles before hand  but you may need to set the title based on data you get from a resource etc   My solution requires a single service  Since the rootScope is the base of all DOM elements  we don t need to put a controller on the html element like someone mentioned  Page js  app service  Page   function  rootScope       return           setTitle  function title                rootScope title   title                        index jade  doctype html html ng-app  app   head     title ng-bind  title            All controllers that need to change title  app controller  SomeController   function Page       Page setTitle  Some Title

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The module angularjs-viewhead shows a mechanism to set the title on a per-view basis using only a custom directive   It can either be applied to an existing view element whose content is already the view title    lt h2 view-title gt About This Site lt  h2 gt       or it can be used as a standalone element  in which case the element will be invisible in the rendered document and will only be used to set the view title    lt view-title gt About This Site lt  view-title gt    The content of this directive is made available in the root scope as viewTitle  so it can be used on the title element just like any other variable    lt title ng-bind-template    viewTitle   - My Site  gt My Site lt  title gt    It can also be used in any other spot that can  see  the root scope  For example    lt h1 gt   viewTitle   lt  h1 gt    This solution allows the title to be set via the same mechanism that is used to control the rest of the presentation  AngularJS templates  This avoids the need to clutter controllers with this presentational logic  The controller needs to make available any data that will be used to inform the title  but the template makes the final determination on how to present it  and can use expression interpolation and filters to bind to scope data as normal    Disclaimer  I am the author of this module  but I m referencing it here only in the hope that it will help someone else to solve this problem

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Custom event-based solution  Here is another approach that hasn t been mentioned by the others here   as of this writing    You can use custom events like so      your index html template  lt html ng-app  app  gt   lt head gt   lt title ng-bind  pageTitle  gt My App lt  title gt      your main app controller that is declared on the  lt html gt  element app controller  AppController   function  scope         scope  on  title-updated   function newTitle             scope pageTitle   newTitle                  some controller somewhere deep inside your app mySubmodule controller  SomeController   function  scope  dynamicService         scope  emit  title-updated   dynamicService title         This approach has the advantage of not requiring extra services to be written and then injected into every controller that needs to set the title  and also doesn t  ab use the  rootScope  It also allows you to set a dynamic title  as in the code example   which is not possible using custom data attributes on the router s config object  as far as I know at least

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None of these answers seemed intuitive enough  so I created a small directive to do this  This way allows you to declare the title in the page  where one would normally do it  and allows it to be dynamic as well   angular module  myModule   directive  pageTitle   function         return           restrict   EA           link  function  scope   element                var el    element 0               el hidden   true     So the text not actually visible on the page              var text   function                     return el innerHTML                             var setTitle   function title                    document title   title                              scope  watch text  setTitle                          You ll need to of course change the module name to match yours   To use it  just throw this in your view  much as you would do for a regular  lt title gt  tag    lt page-title gt   titleText   lt  page-title gt    You can also just include plain text if you don t need it to by dynamic    lt page-title gt Subpage X lt  page-title gt    Alternatively  you can use an attribute  to make it more IE-friendly    lt div page-title gt Title    titleText   lt  div gt    You can put whatever text you want in the tag of course  including Angular code  In this example  it will look for  scope titleText in whichever controller the custom-title tag is currently in    Just make sure you don t have multiple page-title tags on your page  or they ll clobber each other   Plunker example here http   plnkr co edit nK63te7BSbCxLeZ2ADHV  You ll have to download the zip and run it locally in order to see the title change

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If you don t have control over title element  like asp net web form  here is some thing you can use  var app   angular module  myApp        config function   routeProvider                     routeProvider when                                                    title   My Page Title                                               controller   MyController                                               templateUrl   view myView html                                                                          otherwise   redirectTo                      run function   rootScope             rootScope  on   routeChangeSuccess   function  event  currentRoute  previousRoute                document title   currentRoute title

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When I had to solve this  I couldn t place the ng-app on the page s html tag  so I solved it with a service   angular module  myapp common   factory  pageInfo   function   document            Public API     return              Set page  lt title gt  tag  Both parameters are optional          setTitle  function  title  hideTextLogo                var defaultTitle    My App - and my app s cool tagline               var newTitle    title   title   defaultTitle     hideTextLogo          - My App                document 0  title   newTitle

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I just discovered a nice way to set your page title if you re using routing   JavaScript   var myApp   angular module  myApp     ngResource     myApp config         routeProvider   function  routeProvider             routeProvider when                    title   Home               templateUrl    Assets Views Home html               controller   HomeController                       routeProvider when   Product  id                 title   Product               templateUrl    Assets Views Product html               controller   ProductController                        myApp run    rootScope   function  rootScope         rootScope  on   routeChangeSuccess   function  event  current  previous             rootScope title   current   route title                 HTML    lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html ng-app  myApp  gt   lt head gt       lt title ng-bind   myApp  amp mdash      title  gt myApp lt  title gt        Edit  using the ng-bind attribute instead of curlies      so they don t show on load

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Note that you can also set the title directly with javascript  i e     window document title   someTitleYouCreated    This does not have data binding  but it suffices when putting ng-app in the  lt html gt  tag is problematic   For example  using JSP templates where  lt head gt  is defined in exactly one place  yet you have more than one app

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Custom Event Based solution inspired from Michael Bromley  I wasn t able to make it work with  scope  so I tried with rootScope  maybe a bit more dirty     especially if you make a refresh on the page that do not register the event   But I really like the idea of how things are loosely coupled   I m using angularjs 1 6 9  index run js  angular  module  myApp    run runBlock    function runBlock  rootScope            rootScope  on  title-updated   function event  newTitle         rootScope pageTitle    MyApp       newTitle            anyController controller js  angular  module  myApp    controller  MainController   MainController    function MainController  rootScope             simple way      rootScope  emit  title-updated    my new title          with data from rest call   TroncQueteurResource get  id tronc queteur id    promise then function tronc queteur     vm current tronc queteur   tronc queteur      rootScope  emit  title-updated   moment   format  YYYY-MM-DD       - Tronc   vm current tronc queteur id   -                                                  vm current tronc queteur point quete name     -                                                 vm current tronc queteur queteur first name      vm current tronc queteur queteur last name                     index html   lt  doctype html gt   lt html ng-app  myApp  gt     lt head gt       lt meta charset  utf-8  gt       lt title ng-bind  pageTitle  gt My App lt  title gt    It s working for me

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The better and dynamic solution I have found is to use  watch to trace the variable changes and then update the title

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Alternatively  if you are using ui-router   index html   lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html ng-app  myApp  gt   lt head gt       lt title ng-bind   state current data title     App   gt App lt  title gt    Routing   stateProvider    state  home           url             templateUrl   views home html         data            title   Welcome Home

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Declaring ng-app on the html element provides root scope for both the head and body   Therefore in your controller inject  rootScope and set a header property on this   function Test1Ctrl  rootScope   scope   http     rootScope header    Test 1      function Test2Ctrl  rootScope   scope   http     rootScope header    Test 2       and in your page    lt title ng-bind  header  gt  lt  title gt

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Thanks to tosh shimayama for his solution  I thought it was not so clean to put a service straight into the  scope  so here s my slight variation on that   http   plnkr co edit QJbuZZnZEDOBcYrJXWWs  The controller  that in original answer seemed to me a little bit too dumb  creates an ActionBar object  and this one is stuffed into  scope  The object is responsible for actually querying the service  It also hides from the  scope the call to set the template URL  which instead is available to other controllers to set the URL

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Mr Hash had the best answer so far  but the solution below makes it ideal  for me  by adding the following benefits    Adds no watches  which can slow things down Actually automates what I might have done in the controller  yet Still gives me access from the controller if I still want it  No extra injecting   In the router      when   proposals       title   Proposals       templateUrl   proposals index html      controller   ProposalListCtrl      resolve        pageTitle      rootScope     route     rootScope   route  - gt           rootScope page setTitle  route current params filter          route current title            In the run block    run    rootScope     rootScope  - gt     rootScope page       prefix         body           Online Group Consensus Tool      brand           Spokenvote      setTitle   prefix  body  - gt         prefix   if prefix then       prefix charAt 0  toUpperCase     prefix substring 1  else  prifix        body   if body then         body charAt 0  toUpperCase     body substring 1  else  body        title    prefix    body    brand

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A clean way that allow dynamically setting title or meta description  In example I use ui-router but you can use ngRoute in same way   var myApp   angular module  myApp     ui router     myApp config         stateProvider   function  stateProvider             stateProvider state  product                 url    product  id                templateUrl   views product html               resolve                    meta     rootScope     stateParams   function   rootScope   stateParams                        var title    Product      stateParams id                          description    Product      stateParams id                       rootScope meta    title  title  description  description                                          Or using server side title and description                 meta     rootScope     stateParams     http   function   rootScope   stateParams   http                        return  http  method   GET   url   api product     stateParams id                             then  function  product                                 rootScope meta    title  product title  description  product description                                                                             controller   ProductController                         HTML    lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html ng-app  myApp  gt   lt head gt       lt title ng-bind  meta title       My App   gt myApp lt  title gt

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Here s a different way to do title changes  Maybe not as scalable as a factory function  which could conceivably handle unlimited pages  but it was easier for me to understand   In my index html I started like this        lt  DOCTYPE html gt         lt html ng-app  app  gt           lt head gt             lt title ng-bind-template    title    gt Generic Title That You ll Never See lt  title gt    Then I made a partial called  nav html     lt div ng-init   root title    Welcome   gt       lt ul class  unstyled  gt           lt li gt  lt a href    login  ng-click   root title    Login   gt Login lt  a gt  lt  li gt           lt li gt  lt a href    home  ng-click   root title    Home   gt Home lt  a gt  lt  li gt           lt li gt  lt a href    admin  ng-click   root title    Admin   gt Admin lt  a gt  lt  li gt           lt li gt  lt a href    critters  ng-click   root title    Crispy   gt Critters lt  a gt  lt  li gt       lt  ul gt   lt  div gt    Then I went back to  index html  and added the nav html using ng-include and the ng-view for my partials    lt body class  ng-cloak  ng-controller  MainCtrl  gt       lt div ng-include   partials nav html   gt  lt  div gt       lt div gt           lt div ng-view gt  lt  div gt       lt  div gt    Notice that ng-cloak  It doesn t have anything to do with this answer but it hides the page until it s done loading  a nice touch    Learn how here  Angularjs - ng-cloak ng-show elements blink  Here s the basic module   I put it in a file called  app js     function           use strict       var app   angular module  app     ngResource          app config function   routeProvider               configure routes          routeProvider when                    templateUrl   partials home html               controller  MainCtrl                          when   home                 templateUrl   partials home html               controller  MainCtrl                          when   login                 templateUrl  partials login html               controller  LoginCtrl                          when   admin                 templateUrl  partials admin html               controller  AdminCtrl                          when   critters                 templateUrl  partials critters html               controller  CritterCtrl                          when   critters  id                 templateUrl  partials critter-detail html               controller  CritterDetailCtrl                          otherwise  redirectTo   home                      If you look toward the end of the module  you ll see that I have a critter-detail page based on  id   It s a partial that is used from the Crispy Critters page    Corny  I know - maybe it s a site that celebrates all kinds of chicken nuggets     Anyway  you could update the title when a user clicks on any link  so in my main Crispy Critters page that leads to the critter-detail page  that s where the  root title update would go  just like you saw in the nav html above    lt a href    critters 1  ng-click   root title    Critter 1   gt Critter 1 lt  a gt   lt a href    critters 2  ng-click   root title    Critter 2   gt Critter 2 lt  a gt   lt a href    critters 3  ng-click   root title    Critter 3   gt Critter 3 lt  a gt    Sorry so windy but I prefer a post that gives enough detail to get it up and running   Note that the example page in the AngularJS docs is out of date and shows a 0 9 version of ng-bind-template   You can see that it s not that much different   Afterthought  you know this but it s here for anyone else  at the bottom of the index html  one must include the app js with the module            lt  -- APP -- gt           lt script type  text javascript  src  js app js  gt  lt  script gt       lt  body gt   lt  html gt

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Here is an adapted solution that works for me which doesn t require injection of  rootScope into controllers for setting resource specific page titles   In the master template    lt html data-ng-app  myApp  gt       lt head gt       lt title data-ng-bind  page title  gt  lt  title gt            In the routing config    routeProvider when   products         title   Products       templateUrl    partials products list html       controller   ProductsController        routeProvider when   products  id         templateUrl    partials products detail html       controller   ProductController        And in the run block   myApp run    rootScope   function  rootScope         rootScope page             setTitle  function title                this title   title       Site Name                         rootScope  on   routeChangeSuccess   function event  current  previous             rootScope page setTitle current   route title     Default Title                   Finally in the controller   function ProductController  scope          Load product or use resolve in routing      scope page setTitle  scope product name

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Simplistic solution for angular-ui-router    HTML     lt html ng-app  myApp  gt     lt head gt        lt title ng-bind  title  gt  lt  title gt                             lt  head gt   lt  html gt    App js   myApp config block   stateProvider      state  home             title   My app title this will be binded in html title           url    home           templateUrl    home html           controller   homeCtrl           App js myApp run   myApp run    rootScope    state   function  rootScope  state        rootScope  on   stateChangeSuccess   function  event  toState  toParams  fromState  fromParams         rootScope title    state current title      console log  state

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Simple and dirty way using  rootScope    lt html ng-app  project  gt   lt head gt   lt title ng-bind  title  gt Placeholder title lt  title gt    In your controllers  when you have the data necessary to create the title  do    rootScope title    Page X

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