I'd like to extend credit to Matan Zohar for the replacement trick. For further info, see my blog.

ngReusableSvg - Reuse SVG Files with CSS Modifications

Creates a reusable SVG component out of an external SVG file. This lets you control your SVGs using CSS.

Dependencies

• AngularJS v1.3

How to get it?

Manual Download

Download from here

Bower

bower install ngReusableSvg

Usage

1. Add ngReusableSvg.js to your main file (index.html).

2. Set ngReusableSvg as a dependency in your module

    var myApp = angular.module('myApp', ['ngReusableSvg'])

3. Add oa-reusable-svg onto an <object> tag:

    <object oa-reusable-svg
            id="my-svg"
            data="my_icon.svg"
            type="image/svg+xml"
            class="svg-class"
            height="30"
            width="30">
    </object>

4. Important! Make sure your SVG file itself does not specify its own height & width, otherwise this will not work properly.

ngReusableSvg Attributes

• ngClick - an action to be performed when the SVG image is clicked.

• ngClass - an action to be performed to determine the class.

• notifyReady - a boolean (needs to be initialized as false) that will be set to true when the switch has been performed. Useful if you need to know when the image is ready, for instance, when cloning the element.

• float - Accepts only "false" value that turns off the default "float: left;" to the element.