AngularJS ng-click to go to another page (with Ionic framework)

Based on comments, and due to the fact that @Thinkerer (the OP – original poster) created a plunker for this case, I decided to append another answer with more details.

• Here is a plunker created by @Thinkerer
• here is its updated and working version

The first and important change:

// instead of this
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/tab/post');

// we have to use this
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/tab/posts');

because the states definition is:

.state('tab', {
  url: "/tab",
  abstract: true,
  templateUrl: 'tabs.html'
})

.state('tab.posts', {
  url: '/posts',
  views: {
    'tab-posts': {
      templateUrl: 'tab-posts.html',
      controller: 'PostsCtrl'
    }
  }
})

and we need their concatenated url '/tab' + '/posts'. That’s the url we want to use as a otherwise

The rest of the application is really close to the result we need…
E.g. we stil have to place the content into same view targetgood, just these were changed:

.state('tab.newpost', {
  url: '/newpost',
  views: {
    // 'tab-newpost': {
    'tab-posts': {
      templateUrl: 'tab-newpost.html',
      controller: 'NavCtrl'
    }
  }

because .state('tab.newpost' would be replacing the .state('tab.posts' we have to place it into the same anchor:

<ion-nav-view name="tab-posts"></ion-nav-view>  

Finally some adjustments in controllers:

$scope.create = function() {
    $state.go('tab.newpost');
};
$scope.close = function() { 
     $state.go('tab.posts'); 
};

As I already said in my previous answer and comments … the $state.go() is the only right way how to use ionic or ui-router

Check that all here
Final note – I made running just navigation between tab.posts… tab.newpost… the rest would be similar