Hi Al,
There is a difference on how ‘=’ and ‘@’ work. The ‘=’ takes the dom-string, and parses that against the parent scope. This is like writing the following in your link function scope.$parent['monitor'] (don’t do that!) What the ‘@’ is doing is something different. it interpolates the dom-string. that means that it is using a different interpreter, and uses the string as a template, where you can use one or more {{}}. in your case, if you would like to use the ‘@’ you have to put this in your template: <div watch-man="{{variable}}"></div> Does that clarify it a bit for you? Regards Sander -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AngularJS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to angular+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to angular@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/angular. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.