angular ui - Cannot get textarea value in angularjs

Question

Here is my plnkr: http://plnkr.co/edit/n8cRXwIpHJw3jUpL8PX5?p=preview You have to click on a li element and the form will appear. Enter a random string and hit 'add notice'. Instead of the textarea text you will get undefined.

Markup:

<ul>
    <li ng-repeat="ticket in tickets" ng-click="select(ticket)">
         {{ ticket.text }}
    </li>
</ul>
<div ui-if="selectedTicket != null">
     <form ng-submit="createNotice(selectedTicket)">
        <textarea ng-model="noticeText"></textarea>
        <button type="submit">add notice</button>
    </form>
</div>

JS part:

$scope.createNotice = function(ticket){
   alert($scope.noticeText);
}

returns 'undefined'. I noticed that this does not work when using ui-if of angular-ui. Any ideas why this does not work? How to fix it?

Answer 1

Your problem lies in the ui-if part. Angular-ui creates a new scope for anything within that directive so in order to access the parent scope, you must do something like this:

<textarea ng-model="$parent.noticeText"></textarea>

Instead of

<textarea ng-model="noticeText"></textarea>