Option to disable capturing <a href="..."> links

[pixelcort]

Angular should have an option to ignore <a href="..."> links and allow the browser to handle them natively.

I've got HTML I display that I get from an API. In it I have <a href="..."> links I want to behave natively, causing full page reloads. And then I use ng-href for the stuff I want to go through the $router, etc.

[caitp]

the thing is, ngRoute doesn't (and can't) really work like that. it's not "capturing links", it's essentially watching window.location --- so how would you force it to disable the updateRoute function temporarily? It might be doable but I'm not entirely sure how it would work

[Substr]

Unless I'm misunderstanding your question, you can add target="_self" to the link and angular won't try and route it.

[filso]

Yes, target="_self" can be used for that, please look here:

http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/dev_guide.services.$location

[pixelcort]

Yeah I know about target="_self", but this HTML is coming down from an API.

I guess I could parse it and add target="_self" myself as a workaround.

[btford]

I don't think there's any other pragmatic way around this. @pixelcort you might look into transforming your html via response interceptors.