Developer Guide: Angular HTML Compiler: Understanding Angular Widgets

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Widgets are DOM elements that the browser doesn't already understand. Angular provides some built-in widgets (such as ng:repeat), and you can create your own custom widgets.

Widgets are intended to manipulate the DOM tree by adding new elements (unlike angular directives, which are intended to modify only element properties).

Widgets come in two types:

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