Hi,

I've been testing $stateProvider as it's really great replacement for crippled $routeProvider and found interesting behaviour. When the element with ui-view directive is not empty, the first load of the template doesn't replace its content, but works like append. However, the next load replace the whole content of this element.

You can check a live demo here.

Important: This problem occurs only using AngularJS in version 1.1.4. The current stable version works as expected.