.l-main-section p. Mission: By the end of this chapter, you should be able to add to a list on a page when a button is clicked and update the text displayed when the user types into a textbox. .l-sub-section h3#section-examples Examples: ul li a(href='') TypeScript li a(href='') ES5 p. You can make your application respond to user input by associating events with functions in your controller using the event syntax using () to surround the name of an event. p. For a particular control like an input you can have it call methods on your controller on keyup event like so: pre.prettyprint.lang-html code. <input (keyup)="myControllerMethod()"> p. As in previous examples, you can make element references available to other parts of the template as a local variable using the # syntax. With this and events, we can do the old "update text as you type" example: pre.prettyprint.lang-html code. <input #myname (keyup)> <p>{{myname.value}}</p> p.text-body(ng-non-bindable). The #my-name creates a local variable in the template that we'll refer to below in the <p> element. The (keyup) tells Angular to trigger updates when it gets a keyup event. And the {{my-name.value}} binds the text node of the <p> element to the input's value property. p Let's do something a little more complex where users enter items and add them to a list like this: div(align='center') img(src='user-input-example1.png') .l-main-section h2#section-create-an-array-property Create an array property p. With the default bootstrapping in place, create a TodoController class that will manage interactions with the list. Inside TodoController, add an array with an initial list of items. Then add a method that pushes new items on the array when called. aside.is-right. As with the previous example, in a production application you will separate your model out into another class and inject it into TodoController. We've omitted it here for brevity. pre.prettyprint.linenums.lang-javascript code. //ES5 function TodoList() { this.todos = ["Eat Breakfast", "Walk Dog", "Breathe"]; this.addTodo = function(todo) { this.todos.push(todo); }; } pre.prettyprint.linenums.lang-typescript code. //TypeScript class TodoList { todos: Array; constructor() { this.todos = ["Eat Breakfast", "Walk Dog", "Breathe"]; } addTodo(todo: string) { this.todos.push(todo); } }