Calling $mdDialog.cancel() from the controller will close the dialog. But is there a way of not using a controller to close the dialog box like directly from the html ? I want something like this to work:

<md-dialog-actions layout="row">
      <span flex></span>
      <md-button ng-click="$mdDialog.cancel()" style="margin-right:20px;" >
        Ok
      </md-button>
    </md-dialog-actions>

Calling $mdDialog.cancel() from the controller will close the dialog. But is there a way of not using a controller to close the dialog box like directly from the html ? I want something like this to work:

<md-dialog-actions layout="row">
      <span flex></span>
      <md-button ng-click="$mdDialog.cancel()" style="margin-right:20px;" >
        Ok
      </md-button>
    </md-dialog-actions>

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• 2 sure ... if you pass $mdDialog to your scope – charlietfl Commented Nov 22, 2016 at 4:37

4 Answers 4

In your show() code, you can create a child scope and add the close() function:

$mdDialog.show({
    ...
    scope: angular.extend($scope.$new(), { close: function() {$mdDialog.cancel();} })
});

Then in your dialog's HTML, just use ng-click="close()".

Alternatively, you can pass the $mdDialog object as a property of your scope.

However, it's even more code than creating a controller (which can also be created inside the show() function).

Simply

<md-button ng-click="cancel()"></md-button>

And in your dialog controller

$scope.cancel = function() {
    $mdDialog.cancel();
}

You can add mat-dialog-close to the button you want to trigger the close event from

Example: <button mat-dialog-close> Close </button>

You can bind an scope into the dialog config:

$mdDialog.show({
          targetEvent: $event,
          template:
            '<md-dialog>' +

            '  <md-dialog-content>Hello {{ employee }}!</md-dialog-content>' +

            '  <md-dialog-actions>' +
            '    <md-button ng-click="closeDialog()" class="md-primary">' +
            '      Close Greeting' +
            '    </md-button>' +
            '  </md-dialog-actions>' +
            '</md-dialog>',


          scope: $scope,
          preserveScope: true


        });

For more info about the config properties you can see the dialog config documentation in here