>>>Don't get it. 'disable-action="disableClearMessage" ' is setting the value to a string. How does it get to a bool ?
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>>>>However, the button is not disabled and I can click on it just fine and the click event works. It may be a minor problem since the only reason I want to disable the button if there is nothing to clear (the message is empty anyway).
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>>disableClearMessage is a variable I define in the controller's code. So, I set it to true or false in the code.
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>You mean it is in the controller scope? As before you are assigning a string - you need to reference it in the scope:

disable-action="{{disableClearMessage}}"

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Let me try that.

I still don't understand why we can set

ng-disabled = "variableInScope" and it would work correctly.

So, how should I adjust my template? Should I go back to

ng-disabled = "disableAction" ?

BTW, by controller I mean the controller.js file, not the .cs controller.