关于ng-if和ng-show需要注意的一件重要的事情是，当使用表单控件时，最好使用ng-if，因为它完全从dom中删除了元素。

这个区别很重要，因为如果你创建了一个required="true"的输入字段，然后设置ng-show="false"来隐藏它，当用户试图提交表单时，Chrome会抛出以下错误:

An invalid form control with name='' is not focusable.

原因是输入字段是存在的，它是必需的，但由于它是隐藏的Chrome不能关注它。这可能会破坏您的代码，因为此错误会停止脚本执行。所以要小心!

@EdSpencer是正确的。如果您有很多元素，并且使用ng-if只实例化相关的元素，则可以节省资源。 @CodeHater也有点正确，如果你要经常删除和显示一个元素，隐藏它而不是删除它可以提高性能。

我发现ng-if的主要用例是，如果内容是非法的，它允许我清晰地验证和消除元素。例如，我可以引用一个空图像名称变量，这将抛出一个错误，但如果我ng-if并检查它是否为空，这一切都很好。如果我执行ng-show，错误仍然会触发。

也许有趣的一点是，两者的优先级不同。

据我所知，ng-if指令是所有Angular指令中优先级最高(如果不是最高的话)的指令之一。这意味着:它将在所有其他低优先级的指令之前运行。事实上，它首先运行，意味着有效地，在任何内部指令被处理之前，元素被删除。至少，我是这么认为的。

I observerd and used this in the UI I'm building for my current customer. The entire UI is quite heavily packed, and it had ng-show and ng-hide all over it. Not to go into too much detail, but I built a generic component, which could be managed using JSON config, so I had to do some switching inside the template. There is an ng-repeat present, and inside the ng-repeat, a table is shown, which has a lot of ng-shows, ng-hides and even ng-switches present. They wanted to show at least 50 repeats in the list, which would result in more or less 1500-2000 directives to be resolved. I checked the code, and the Java backend + custom JS on the front would take about 150ms to process the data, and then Angular would chew some 2-3 seconds on it, before displaying. The customer did not complain, but I was appalled :-)

In my search, I stumbled across the ng-if directive. Now, maybe it's best to point out that at the point of conceiving this UI, there was no ng-if available. Because the ng-show and ng-hide had functions in them, which returned booleans, I could easily replace them all with ng-if. By doing so, all inner directives seemed to be no longer evaluated. That meant that I dropped back to about a third of all directives being evaluated, and thus, the UI speeded up to about 500ms - 1 sec loading time. (I have no way to determine exact seconds)

注意:指令没有被评估的事实，是对下面发生的事情的一个有根据的猜测。

所以，在我看来:如果你需要元素出现在页面上(即:检查元素，或其他)，但只是被隐藏，请使用ng-show/ng-hide。在所有其他情况下，使用ng-if。

关于ng-if和ng-show需要注意的一件重要的事情是，当使用表单控件时，最好使用ng-if，因为它完全从dom中删除了元素。

这个区别很重要，因为如果你创建了一个required="true"的输入字段，然后设置ng-show="false"来隐藏它，当用户试图提交表单时，Chrome会抛出以下错误:

An invalid form control with name='' is not focusable.

原因是输入字段是存在的，它是必需的，但由于它是隐藏的Chrome不能关注它。这可能会破坏您的代码，因为此错误会停止脚本执行。所以要小心!

事实上，ng-if指令与ng-show指令不同，它创建了自己的作用域，导致了有趣的实际差异:

angular.module('app', []).controller('ctrl', function($scope){ $scope.delete = function(array, item){ array.splice(array.indexOf(item), 1); } }) <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.23/angular.min.js"></script> <div ng-app='app' ng-controller='ctrl'> <h4>ng-if:</h4> <ul ng-init='arr1 = [1,2,3]'> <li ng-repeat='x in arr1'> {{show}} <button ng-if='!show' ng-click='show=!show'>Delete {{show}}</button> <button ng-if='show' ng-click='delete(arr1, x)'>Yes {{show}}</button> <button ng-if='show' ng-click='show=!show'>No</button> </li> </ul> <h4>ng-show:</h4> <ul ng-init='arr2 = [1,2,3]'> <li ng-repeat='x in arr2'> {{show}} <button ng-show='!show' ng-click='show=!show'>Delete {{show}}</button> <button ng-show='show' ng-click='delete(arr2, x)'>Yes {{show}}</button> <button ng-show='show' ng-click='show=!show'>No</button> </li> </ul> <h4>ng-if with $parent:</h4> <ul ng-init='arr3 = [1,2,3]'> <li ng-repeat='item in arr3'> {{show}} <button ng-if='!show' ng-click='$parent.show=!$parent.show'>Delete {{$parent.show}}</button> <button ng-if='show' ng-click='delete(arr3, x)'>Yes {{$parent.show}}</button> <button ng-if='show' ng-click='$parent.show=!$parent.show'>No</button> </li> </ul> </div>

在第一个列表，on-click事件，显示变量，从内部/自己的作用域，被改变了，但ng-if正在观察从外部作用域同名的另一个变量，所以解决方案不工作。对于ng-show，我们只有一个show变量，这就是它工作的原因。要修复第一次尝试，我们应该通过$parent.show引用show from parent/outer scope。

Ng-show和ng-hide的工作方式相反。但是ng-hide或ng-show与ng-if的区别是，如果我们使用ng-if，那么元素将在dom中创建，而使用ng-hide/ng-show，元素将完全隐藏。

ng-show=true/ng-hide=false:
Element will be displayed

ng-show=false/ng-hide=true:
element will be hidden

ng-if =true
element will be created

ng-if= false
element will be created in the dom.