An Angular template is the declarative specification that, along with information from the model and controller, becomes the rendered view that a user sees in the browser. It is the static DOM, containing HTML, CSS, and angular-specific elements and angular-specific element attributes. The Angular elements and attributes direct angular to add behavior and transform the template DOM into the dynamic view DOM.
These are the types of Angular elements and element attributes you can use in a template:
Markup — The double
curly brace notation {{ }} to bind expressions to elements is built-in angular markup.Note: In addition to declaring the elements above in templates, you can also access these elements in JavaScript code.
The following code snippet shows a simple Angular template made up of standard HTML tags along with Angular directives and curly-brace bindings with expressions:
<html ng-app>
<!-- Body tag augmented with ngController directive -->
<body ng-controller="MyController">
<input ng-model="foo" value="bar">
<!-- Button tag with ng-click directive, and
string expression 'buttonText'
wrapped in "{{ }}" markup -->
<button ng-click="changeFoo()">{{buttonText}}</button>
<script src="angular.js">
</body>
</html>
In a simple single-page app, the template consists of HTML, CSS, and angular directives contained
in just one HTML file (usually index.html). In a more complex app, you can display multiple views
within one main page using "partials", which are segments of template located in separate HTML
files. You "include" the partials in the main page using the $route service in conjunction with the ngView directive. An
example of this technique is shown in the angular tutorial, in steps seven and
eight.