Content Projection in Angular with ng-content

AngularJS had transclusion, and Angular gets content projection with the use of <ng-content></ng-content>.

Let’s say you have a home component with a decorator that goes a bit like this:

@Component({
  selector: 'home',
  template: `
    <h1>Heroic Title</h1>
    <p>Something good...</p>
  `
})

And let’s say you want to be able to do something like this when including the component:

<home>
  <p>Something else</p>
</home>

Then what you would do is use <ng-content></ng-content> like this in your component template:

@Component({
  selector: 'home',
  template: `
    <h1>Heroic Title</h1>
    <p>Something good...</p>
    <ng-content></ng-content>
  `
})

The result will then be the following:

<h1>Heroic Title</h1>
<p>Something good...</p>
<p>Something else</p>

And with this, you could also place components inside your wrapper component. Here’s how you would, for example, project the myNav component inside the home component:

<home>
  <myNav></myNav>
</home>

You can also use select on ng-content to define what should be included. In this example, only div elements would be included:

@Component({
  selector: 'home',
  template: `
    <h1>Heroic Title</h1>
    <p>Something good...</p>
    <ng-content select="div">
    </ng-content>
  `
})

And you can use the [attr] syntax to select only elements that have a specific attribute. In the following example, only something like <p intro>…</p> would be included:

@Component({
  selector: 'home',
  template: `
    <h1>Heroic Title</h1>
    <p>Something good...</p>
    <ng-content select="[intro]">
    </ng-content>
  `
})