Angularjs Directive To Replace Tags With An Ngclick Function

I'm currently trying to build a directive that would take posts from a certain service, and then iterate through a 'tags' array, replacing any instances that occur with HTML. I'm g

Solution 1:

So I've spent a (very) long time trying to find a solution to this problem and I finally managed to solve it thanks to this question/answer here.

This is the resulting directive that solved my problem with what I wanted if anyone else has trouble:

http://jsfiddle.net/hv7Pj/9/

app.directive('parseTags', function ($compile) {
var pattern = /(^|\s)#([^\s]+)/g;return {
    restrict: 'A',
    require: 'ngModel',
    replace: true,
    scope: {
        ngModel: '=ngModel'
    },
    link: functioncompile(scope, element, attrs, controller) {
        scope.$watch('ngModel', function (value) {
            angular.forEach(value.match(pattern), function (tag) {
                var nohash = tag.replace(/#/g, '');
                console.log(nohash);
                value = value.replace(tag, "<a ng-click='onClick(\"" + nohash + "\")'>" + tag + "</a>");
            });

            var content = angular.element('<div></div>').html(value).contents();
            var compiled = $compile(content);
            element.html('');
            element.append(content);
            scope.onClick = function (tag) {
                alert(tag);
            };

            compiled(scope)
        });
    }
};
});