ng-template: As the name suggests the ng-template is a template element that Angular uses with structural directives (*ngIf, *ngFor, [ngSwitch] and custom directives).

模板元素，伴随着Angular结构化指令比如*ngIf, *ngFor和ngSwitch等一起使用。

Angular wraps the host element (to which the directive is applied) inside ng-template and consumes the ng-template in the finished DOM by replacing it with diagnostic comments.

结构化指令施加的元素称为host元素，host元素被ng-template包裹，当Angular渲染页面时，会消费ng-template, 并在最终生成的DOM元素中加上一些diagnostic comment.

例子：

这个id为emotyList的ng-template，出现在structual directive *ngIf里，

host元素p被ng-template包裹：

另一个例子：

最后生成的原生html页面：

注意，如果ng-template没有配合structural指令而是单独使用，则host元素最后不会渲染出来。看个例子：

最后渲染的原生html页面，里面什么也没有：

以下两种方法能够让go home通过ng-template被显示：

其中方法1使用了解糖之后的原始ngIf指令，此时Angular只会简单将ng-template替换成comment，而ng-template内的内容原封不动地出现在最后的HTML页面中。

In this method, you are providing Angular with the de-sugared format that needs no further processing. This time Angular would only convert ng-template to comments but leaves the content inside it untouched (they are no longer inside any ng-template as they were in the previous case). Thus, it will render the content correctly.

参考链接：Everything you need to know about ng-template, ng-content, ng-container, and *ngTemplateOutlet in Angular

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