Jquery UI tab not working in AngularJS

Question

I am using jquery UI tab in angularJS and used ng-repeat to generate list items and tab containers. Tabs are working but the tab containers are not working properly.

template - tabs.html

<ul ng-sortable="pages">
    <li ng-controller="pageCtrl" ng-repeat="page in pages">
        <a class="pageName" href="#{{page.id}}">{{page.name}}</a>
    </li>
</ul>
<div id="{{page.id}}" ng-repeat="page in pages">
    <p>{{page.id}}</p>
</div>

Directive

.directive('ngTabs', function($rootScope) {
        return {
            restrict: 'E',
            templateUrl: "js/templates/tabs.html",
            link: function(scope, elm) {
                elm.tabs();
            }
        };
    })

jsfiddle link: http://jsfiddle.net/sannitesh/NLw6y/

Answer 1

The problem is that when the ngTabs directive is executed the content of that div is not generated yet. Wrapping the call to .tabs() in a setTimeout will do the trick.

myApp.directive('ngTabs', function() {
    return function(scope, elm) {
        setTimeout(function() {
            elm.tabs();
        },0);
    };
});

see jsFiddle. This might not be the best way/the angular way.

You could take a look at the compile service especially if the actual tabs change at runtime.