Develop Reference

Disabling submit button based on fields added with ng-bind-html

JSFiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/c6tzj6Lf/4/
I am dynamically creating forms and buttons and want to disable the buttons if the required form inputs are not completed.
HTML:
<div ng-app="choicesApp">
<ng-form name="choicesForm" ng-controller="ChoicesCtrl">
<div ng-bind-html="trustCustom()"></div>
<button ng-repeat="button in buttons" ng-disabled="choicesForm.$invalid">
{{button.text}}
</button>
</ng-form>
</div>
JavaScript:
angular.module('choicesApp', ['ngSanitize'])
.controller('ChoicesCtrl', ['$scope', '$sce', function($scope, $sce) {
$scope.custom = "Required Input: <input required type='text'>";
$scope.trustCustom = function() {
return $sce.trustAsHtml($scope.custom);
};
$scope.buttons = [
{text:'Submit 1'},
{text:'Submit 2'}];
}]);
choicesForm.$invalid is false and does not change when entering text into the input field.
Solution:
I ended up using the angular-bind-html-compile directive from here: https://github.com/incuna/angular-bind-html-compile
Here is the relevant bit of working code:
<ng-form name="choicesForm">
<div ng-if="choices" bind-html-compile="choices"></div>
<button ng-click="submitForm()" ng-disabled="choicesForm.$invalid">
Submit
</button>
</ng-form>
And choices might be a snippit of HTML like this:
<div><strong>What is your sex?</strong></div>
<div>
<input type="radio" name="gender" ng-model="gender" value="female" required>
<label for="female"> Female</label><br>
<input type="radio" name="gender" ng-model="gender" value="male" required>
<label for="male"> Male</label>
</div>

The main problem is that ngBindHtml doesn't compile the html - it inserts the html as it is. You can even inspect the dynamic input and see that it doesn't have the ngModel's CSS classes (ng-pristine, ng-untouched, etc) which is a major red flag.
In your case, the form simply doesn't know that you've added another input or anything has changed for that matter. Its state ($pristine, $valid, etc) isn't determined by its HTML but by the registered NgModelControllers. These controllers are added automatically when an ngModel is linked.
For example this <input required type='text'> won't affect the form's validity, even if it's required, since it doesn't have ngModel assigned to it.
But this <div ng-model="myDiv" required></div> will affect it since it's required and has ngModel assigned to it.
The ngDisabled directive on your buttons works as expected since it depends on the form's $invalid property.
See this fiddle which showcases how ngModel registers its controller. Note that the html containing the dynamic input gets compiled after 750ms just to show how NgModelControllers can be added after FormController has been instantiated.
There are a few solutions in your case:
use a custom directive to bind and compile html - like this one
use ngInclude which does compile the html
use $compile to compile the newly added HTML but this is a bit tricky as you won't know exactly when to perform this action

This is an answer yet imcomplete because i cannot do the code at the moment.
I think your html will be included, not compiled. So the inputs are not bind to angular and are not part of the angular form object.
The only way i see is to use a directive that will compile the passed html and add it to your form. This may be quite tricky though, if you want to go on this way i suggest to edit your question to ask for the said directive.
However i'm not really familiar with $compile so i don't know if it'll work to just add $compile around $sce.trustAsHtml()

You can write a method as ng-disabled does not work with booleans, it works with 'checked' string instead:
So on your controller place a method :
$scope.buttonDisabled = function(invalid){
return invalid ? "checked" : "";
};
And on your view use it on angular expression :
<button ng-repeat="button in buttons" ng-disabled="buttonDisabled(choicesForm.$invalid)">
Here is a working fiddle

Working DEMO
This is the solution you are looking for. You need a custom directive. In my example I have used a directive named compile-template and incorporated it in div element.
<div ng-bind-html="trustCustom()" compile-template></div>
Directive Code:
.directive('compileTemplate', function($compile, $parse){
return {
link: function(scope, element, attr){
var parsed = $parse(attr.ngBindHtml);
function getStringValue() { return (parsed(scope) || '').toString(); }
//Recompile if the template changes
scope.$watch(getStringValue, function() {
$compile(element, null, -9999)(scope); //The -9999 makes it skip directives so that we do not recompile ourselves
});
}
}
});
I found the directive in this fiddle.

I believe what is really happening though due to jsfiddle I'm unable to dissect the actual scopes being created here.
<div ng-app="choicesApp">
<ng-form name="choicesForm" ng-controller="ChoicesCtrl">
<div ng-bind-html="trustCustom()"></div>
<button ng-repeat="button in buttons" ng-disabled="choicesForm.$invalid">
{{button.text}}
</button>
</ng-form>
</div>
The first div is your top level scope, your form is the first child scope. Adding the div using a function creates the dynamically added input field as a child of the first child, a grandchild of the top level scope. Therefore your form is not aware of the elements you're adding dynamically causing only the static field to be required for valid form entry.
A better solution would be to use ng-inclue for additional form fields or if your form isn't to large then simply put them on the page or template you're using.

HTML input has both {{}} and ng-model

I have a form which contains two input fields, I want to sync the next input field when user is typing in the first input field by default, and user can edit the second field as they like, below code works fine:
<input type="text" ng-model="name">
<input type='text' value='{{name}}'>
<button ng-click='submit()'>submit</button>
However, to be able to get the value of second field, I need to put ng-model to the second field, and once I put ng-model, it won't sync anymore.
This is the example
How should I get the second field's value if I don't put a ng-model to it.
Thank you.

You can use ng-change. When user changes input 1 the ng-change method will be called and input2 will be updated .but when user change input 2 nothing will be called .
<DIV ng-app='app'>
<form ng-controller='myController'>
<input type='text' ng-model='name' ng-change="callMe()"/>
<input type='text' ng-model="name2" />{{name2}}
</form>
</DIV>
and controller js
var app = angular.module('app', []);
app.controller('myController', function($scope){
$scope.callMe =function(){
$scope.name2=$scope.name;
}
//$scope.name
//$scope.name2
})
update fiddle example

You could use the $scope.$watch Method for your needings.
I have updatet your fiddle.
What i did is easy, everytime the model changes, the $watch will be called with the new value of the model, then you just need to copy the value into the second model.

First approach that came to my mind was to ng-bind a property with a setter that would do what you want:
<input type='text' ng-model='nameModel' />
then
app.controller('myController', function($scope) {
Object.defineProperty($scope, 'nameModel', {
get: function() { return $scope.name1; },
set: function(x) { $scope.name1 = $scope.name2 = x; }
});
});
This causes any edit to nameModel to affect both name1 and name2.
Fiddle
You could do a similar wrapper around name2 to track whether it has ever been modified (dirty/pristine), and have nameModel only change scope.name2 if it is pristine.
Fiddle with better user experience
(If you're using Angular forms, it tracks the field status for you, so you could directly look at form.name2.$pristine.)

It seems that what you need is to set the value to the scope variable.
So your code would then look like this:
<input type="text" ng-model="name">
<input type='text' value="{{name}}" ng-model="somethingelse">
<button ng-click='submit()'>submit</button>
Hope that helps.

Angularjs, checking if radio buttons in form have been selected

I'm starting with AngularJS, and I'm building a multi-step form where user has to fill different pages. When finished a page, he's allowed to press a next button and fill the following page.
For the first page, I've built in the HMTL a form (named pageOneForm), with different text input fields, marked as required, and in the relative controller I'm doing this watch:
$scope.$watch('pageOneForm.$valid', function(validity) {
ModelData.actualPageCompleted = validity;
})
And it works like a charme. My model (ModelData) is updated.
I was trying to apply the same logic to the following part of the app, the second page. Instead of input text, the user has to select two options from 2 different radio buttons groups.
So I built in the html a list of buttons via ng-repeat :
<div ng-Controller="PageTwo" ng-show='data.actualPage == 2'>
<form name="pageTwoForm">
<h3>General Information > Knowledge About </h3>
<div>
<b>User</b>
<div ng-repeat="option in userOptions">
<input type="radio" name="userGroups" ng-model="data.knowledgeAboutUser" ng-value="option.id" id="{{option.id}}" required>{{option.text}}
</div>
<div ng-repeat="option in targetGroupUserOptions">
<input type="radio" name = "targetUserGroup" ng-model="data.knowledgeAboutTargetGroup" ng-value="option.id" id="{{option.id}}" required>{{option.text}}
</div>
</div>
</form>
and I've implemented the same code as above in its controller:
$scope.$watch('pageTwoForm.$valid', function(validity) {
ModelData.actualPageCompleted = validity;
})
but apparently it doesn't work, and in my model actualPageCompleted is always true...
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks

I did my best to create a controller with some dummy data to get a fiddle working with your example code. Here is the fiddle You need to force the $digest cycle to update your form's validity state on ng-click for the radio buttons (see this SO post for more details), which is why the method
$scope.forceDigest = function(){
setTimeout(function(){ $rootScope.$$phase || $rootScope.$apply(); });
};
is necessary. Alternatively, you can get rid of the method call and uncomment the html code
<h3 ng-show="false">{{data.knowledgeAboutTargetGroup}}</h3>
<h3 ng-show="false">{{data.knowledgeAboutUser}}</h3>
in the fiddle to force the form object to update as well.
And I would make sure that ModelData.actualPageCompleted is not retaining its true value from when pageOneForm.$valid became true and it was set.
I hope that this helps!

AngularJS checkbox model value is undefined

I have a problem where I'm attempting to post the value of a checkbox in my model to the server and as the checkbox has not been interacted with on the form, angular seems to have not assigned it a value, when I ask for the value of the checkbox it comes back as undefined.
Here is my markup:
<div class="form-group">
<input id="templateDisable" type="checkbox" ng-model="template.disabled" />
<label for="templateDisable">Disabled</label>
</div>
And here's a reduced version of my save action on my controller:
$scope.save = function (form) {
if (form.$valid) {
var formData = new FormData();
// this is the problem line of code
formData.append("disabled", $scope.template.disabled);
// ... some other stuff
}
};
Actually, ticking then unticking the checkbox before I hit the save action results in the template.disabled property being false, which is what I would have expected without any manual intervention.
I've seen other related questions, e.g. AngularJS: Initial checkbox value not in model but surely stuff like a simple checkbox should be baked in? I shouldn't have to be writing directives to manage checkboxes surely?

This is per design. If you want a default value on your model than you should initialise it inside the controller (recommended), or make use of ng-init.
app.controller('AppController',
[
'$scope',
function($scope) {
$scope.template = {
disabled = false
};
}
]
);
<div class="form-group">
<input type="checkbox" ng-model="template.disabled" ng-init="template.disabled=false" />
<label>Disabled</label>
</div>

The following will always set the state back to "unchecked" when the page is loaded (or refreshed). In other words it will overwrite the user's actual selection whenever the page is refreshed.
<input type="checkbox" ng-model="template.disabled"
ng-init="template.disabled=false" />
If, however, you want the checkbox state set to a default state initially and you also want it to remember user interactions, then the following is what you want.
<input type="checkbox" ng-model="template.disabled"
ng-init="template.disabled = template.disabled || false" />

AngularJS - Value attribute on an input text box is ignored when there is a ng-model used?

Using AngularJS if I set a simple input text box value to something like "bob" below. The value does not display if the ng-model attribute is added.
<input type="text"
id="rootFolder"
ng-model="rootFolders"
disabled="disabled"
value="Bob"
size="40"/>
Anyone know of a simple work around to default this input to something and keep the ng-model? I tried to use a ng-bind with the default value but that seems not to work either.

That's desired behavior, you should define the model in the controller, not in the view.
<div ng-controller="Main">
<input type="text" ng-model="rootFolders">
</div>
function Main($scope) {
$scope.rootFolders = 'bob';
}

Vojta described the "Angular way", but if you really need to make this work, #urbanek recently posted a workaround using ng-init:
<input type="text" ng-model="rootFolders" ng-init="rootFolders='Bob'" value="Bob">
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/angular/Hn3eztNHFXw/wk3HyOl9fhcJ

Overriding the input directive does seem to do the job. I made some minor alterations to Dan Hunsaker's code:
Added a check for ngModel before trying to use $parse().assign() on fields without a ngModel attributes.
Corrected the assign() function param order.
app.directive('input', function ($parse) {
return {
restrict: 'E',
require: '?ngModel',
link: function (scope, element, attrs) {
if (attrs.ngModel && attrs.value) {
$parse(attrs.ngModel).assign(scope, attrs.value);
}
}
};
});

The Angular way
The correct Angular way to do this is to write a single page app, AJAX in the form template, then populate it dynamically from the model. The model is not populated from the form by default because the model is the single source of truth. Instead Angular will go the other way and try to populate the form from the model.
If however, you don't have time to start over from scratch
If you have an app written, this might involve some fairly hefty architectural changes. If you're trying to use Angular to enhance an existing form, rather than constructing an entire single page app from scratch, you can pull the value from the form and store it in the scope at link time using a directive. Angular will then bind the value in the scope back to the form and keep it in sync.
Using a directive
You can use a relatively simple directive to pull the value from the form and load it in to the current scope. Here I've defined an initFromForm directive.
var myApp = angular.module("myApp", ['initFromForm']);
angular.module('initFromForm', [])
.directive("initFromForm", function ($parse) {
return {
link: function (scope, element, attrs) {
var attr = attrs.initFromForm || attrs.ngModel || element.attrs('name'),
val = attrs.value;
if (attrs.type === "number") {val = parseInt(val)}
$parse(attr).assign(scope, val);
}
};
});
You can see I've defined a couple of fallbacks to get a model name. You can use this directive in conjunction with the ngModel directive, or bind to something other than $scope if you prefer.
Use it like this:
<input name="test" ng-model="toaster.test" value="hello" init-from-form />
{{toaster.test}}
Note this will also work with textareas, and select dropdowns.
<textarea name="test" ng-model="toaster.test" init-from-form>hello</textarea>
{{toaster.test}}

Update: My original answer involved having the controller contain DOM-aware code, which breaks Angular conventions in favor of HTML. #dmackerman mentioned directives in a comment on my answer, and I completely missed that until just now. With that input, here's the right way to do this without breaking Angular or HTML conventions:
There's also a way to get both - grab the value of the element and use that to update the model in a directive:
<div ng-controller="Main">
<input type="text" id="rootFolder" ng-model="rootFolders" disabled="disabled" value="Bob" size="40" />
</div>
and then:
app.directive('input', ['$parse', function ($parse) {
return {
restrict: 'E',
require: '?ngModel',
link: function (scope, element, attrs) {
if(attrs.value) {
$parse(attrs.ngModel).assign(scope, attrs.value);
}
}
};
}]);
You can of course modify the above directive to do more with the value attribute before setting the model to its value, including using $parse(attrs.value, scope) to treat the value attribute as an Angular expression (though I'd probably use a different [custom] attribute for that, personally, so the standard HTML attributes are consistently treated as constants).
Also, there is a similar question over at Making data templated in available to ng-model which may also be of interest.

If you use AngularJs ngModel directive, remember that the value of value attribute does not bind on ngModel field.You have to init it by yourself and the best way to do it,is
<input type="text"
id="rootFolder"
ng-init="rootFolders = 'Bob'"
ng-model="rootFolders"
disabled="disabled"
value="Bob"
size="40"/>

This is a slight modification to the earlier answers...
There is no need for $parse
angular.directive('input', [function () {
'use strict';
var directiveDefinitionObject = {
restrict: 'E',
require: '?ngModel',
link: function postLink(scope, iElement, iAttrs, ngModelController) {
if (iAttrs.value && ngModelController) {
ngModelController.$setViewValue(iAttrs.value);
}
}
};
return directiveDefinitionObject;
}]);

Hi you can try below methods with initialize of model.
Here you can initialize ng-model of textbox two way
- With use of ng-init
- With use of $scope in js
<!doctype html>
<html >
<head>
<title>Angular js initalize with ng-init and scope</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.5.8/angular.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body ng-app="app" >
<h3>Initialize value with ng-init</h3>
<!-- Initlialize model values with ng-init -->
<div ng-init="user={fullname:'Bhaskar Bhatt',email:'bhatt.bhaskar88#gmail.com',address:'Ahmedabad'};">
Name : <input type="text" ng-model="user.fullname" /><br/>
Email : <input type="text" ng-model="user.email" /><br/>
Address:<input type="text" ng-model="user.address" /><br/>
</div>
<!-- initialize with js controller scope -->
<h3>Initialize with js controller</h3>
<div ng-controller="alpha">
Age:<input type="text" name="age" ng-model="user.age" /><br/>
Experience : <input type="text" name="experience" ng-model="user.exp" /><br/>
Skills : <input type="text" name="skills" ng-model="user.skills" /><br/>
</div>
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
angular.module("app",[])
.controller("alpha",function($scope){
$scope.user={};
$scope.user.age=27;
$scope.user.exp="4+ years";
$scope.user.skills="Php,javascript,Jquery,Ajax,Mysql";
});
</script>
</html>

The issue is that you have to set the ng-model to the parent element to where you want to set the ng-value/value .
As mentioned by Angular:
It is mainly used on input[radio] and option elements, so that when the element is selected, the ngModel of that element (or its select parent element) is set to the bound value.
Eg:This is an executed code :
<div class="col-xs-12 select-checkbox" >
<label style="width: 18em;" ng-model="vm.settingsObj.MarketPeers">
<input name="radioClick" type="radio" ng-click="vm.setPeerGrp('market');"
ng-value="vm.settingsObj.MarketPeers"
style="position:absolute;margin-left: 9px;">
<div style="margin-left: 35px;color: #717171e8;border-bottom: 0.5px solid #e2e2e2;padding-bottom: 2%;">Hello World</div>
</label>
</div>
Note: In this above case I alreday had the JSON response to the ng-model and the value, I am just adding another property to the JS object as "MarketPeers". So the model and value may depend according to the need, but I think this process will help, to have both ng-model and value but not having them on the same element.

I had similar issue. I was not able to use value="something" to display and edit.
I had to use the below command inside my <input>along withe ng model being declared.
[(ngModel)]=userDataToPass.pinCode
Where I have the list of data in the object userDataToPass and the item that I need to display and edit is pinCode.
For the same , I referred to this YouTube video