Angular 2 component without selector tag in DOM

To answer your question, you can also do this...

@Component({
  selector: '[my-component]'...

<my-component *ngIf="..."</my-component>

// becomes this in the dom

<div my-component _nghost...>

There is also ng-container for this purpose.

<ng-container *ngIf="something.is.there">
  <div class="here">
    Hello
  </div>
</ng-container>

// DOM: => <div class="here">Hello</div>

Use equivalent expanded *ngIf notation with template tag:

<template [ngIf]="check">
  <div>div 1...</div>
  <div>div 2...</div>
  <div>div 3...</div>  
</template>

You can solve this by using CSS only, just set my-component as display: contents,

    my-component {
        display: contents;
    }

As stated on display: contents documentation, this causes to appear as if the component were direct children of the element's parent.

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