[angularjs] AngularJS: Can't I set a variable value on ng-click?

I have a modal that uses ng-show="prefs" to determine visibility.

My desire is to use the close button in the modal to set $scope.prefs to false and to use an anchor tag to set the value to true. However, all I can find on google uses a checkbox rather than anchor tags.

Is there a way to use ng-click to set a variable to false?

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The answer is


You can use some thing like this

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If you are using latest versions of Angular (2/5/6) :

In your component.ts

//x.component.ts
prefs = false;

hidePrefs(){
   this.prefs = true;
}

While @tymeJV gave a correct answer, the way to do this to be inline with angular would be:

ng-click="hidePrefs()"

and then in your controller:

$scope.hidePrefs = function() {  
  $scope.prefs = false;
}