{"id":274,"date":"2016-08-13T08:59:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.n8williams.com\/devblog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2016-08-15T17:34:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T23:34:12","slug":"angular-2-child-element-attribute-not-working-use-input-decorator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/n8williams.com\/devblog\/javascript_and_ajax\/angular-2-child-element-attribute-not-working-use-input-decorator","title":{"rendered":"Angular 2 child element attribute not working, use input decorator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When defining a re-usable modal container, I could not get the &#8216;title&#8217; attribute to appear when set on the parent template&#8217;s use of the component.<\/p>\n<p>I was using a modal with a map sibling, as<\/p>\n<pre class=\"theme:obsidian toolbar:2 whitespace-before:1 whitespace-after:1 lang:xhtml decode:true \">template: '&lt;div id=\"map-canvas\"&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;modal-container title=\"Section Notes\"&gt;&lt;\/modal-container&gt;'<\/pre>\n<p>I figured out the child component needed to use the input decorator on the &#8216;title&#8217; property. 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