While AngularJS allows you to get a hand on a click event (and thus a target of it) with the following syntax (note the $event argument to the setMaster function; documentation here: http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.directive:ngClick):
function AdminController($scope) {
$scope.setMaster = function(obj, $event){
console.log($event.target);
}
}
this is not very angular-way of solving this problem. With AngularJS the focus is on the model manipulation. One would mutate a model and let AngularJS figure out rendering.
The AngularJS-way of solving this problem (without using jQuery and without the need to pass the $event argument) would be:
<div ng-controller="AdminController">
<ul class="list-holder">
<li ng-repeat="section in sections" ng-class="{active : isSelected(section)}">
<a ng-click="setMaster(section)">{{section.name}}</a>
</li>
</ul>
<hr>
{{selected | json}}
</div>
where methods in the controller would look like this:
$scope.setMaster = function(section) {
$scope.selected = section;
}
$scope.isSelected = function(section) {
return $scope.selected === section;
}
Here is the complete jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/pkozlowski_opensource/WXJ3p/15/