My code looks something like this -
<form name="myForm" ng-submit="!myForm.phone.$isEmpty(this.$viewValue)" action="/my/url" method="get">
<input name="phone">
<button type="submit">submit</button>
</form>
Now I can't submit the form even if I fill the phone number field.
But if I code like this :
<form name="myForm" ng-submit="!myForm.phone.$isEmpty(myForm.phone.$viewValue)" action="/my/url" method="get">
<input name="phone">
<button type="submit">submit</button>
</form>
Its perfectly working now.
So the difficulty is with 'this'. I cant even check the context of this, it should be the the context of $scope.myForm.phone, but somehow it isn't. Can someone please explain.
That's not what ng-submit is for. ng-submit is a function or expression called when the form is submitted. It's nothing to do with validation. If you want to ensure the text field is not empty before it's submitted you just need to add required and then if it is empty myForm.$invalid will be true.
Is this what you are trying to do:
html
<form name="myForm" ng-submit="submit(phone)">
<input name="phone" type="text" ng-model="phone.value" required>
<button type="submit" ng-disabled="myForm.$invalid" >submit</button>
</form>
controller
$scope.submit = function(phone){
console.log('phone', phone);
}
$scope.phone = {
value: ''
};
update
The this that you passed into the ng-submit is a reference to your controller. Since you have the name attribute set to myForm you can access the form model via this.myForm and the phone model via this.myForm.phone. So if you wanted to use $isEmpty to verify if the field is empty you would have to use:
this.myForm.phone.$isEmpty(this.myForm.phone.$viewValue)
ng-submit is used to provide a handler for the moment when the form IS submitted.
What you're looking for is disabling submit button with ng-disabled
<form name="myForm" ng-submit="functionInController()" action="/my/url" method="get">
<input name="phone" required>
<button type="submit" ng-disabled="myForm.$invalid">submit</button>
</form>
Pay attention to required directive added to the input. Which makes sure this field is not empty for submit
Related
I have a form like below:
<form action="/action_page.php" onsubmit="alert('The form was submitted');" >
Enter name: <input type="text" name="fname">
<input type="button" onclick="document.getElementsByTagName('form')[0].submit()" value="Submit">
</form>
Though I clicked the button and indeed it submitted the form, but the alert box wasn't shown. That is, the submit() method submitted the form but without triggering the onsubmit event. What happened? And how should I use submit() method to trigger the onsubmit event?
Well, the documentation for the submit method is pretty clear that it doesn't trigger onsubmit.
Since any of the following form elements cause a form submit:
<input type='submit'>
<input type='button'>
<button>
You likely don't need an onclick handler on that button at all
it seems that you can't, please check this post - https://stackoverflow.com/a/19847255/8449863
however, please try workaround with hidden submit button:
<form action="/action_page.php" onsubmit="alert('The form was submitted');" >
Enter name: <input type="text" name="fname">
<input type="button" value="Submit" onclick="document.getElementById('submit').click();" >
<input id="submit" type="submit" style="display: none;" />
</form>
So I have this html form:
<form>
<input type="text" placeholder="Equation" id="equation_input" onsubmit="return button_click()"/>
<input class = "search_button" type="submit" id="search" onclick="button_click()" value="Search"/>
</form>
And I need to take the value the user entered in the equation input, add it to the beginning of a url, and then redirect the user to that newly formed url.
I tried this in my script tags:
function button_click() {
var url = `https://exampleurl.com?q=${document.getElementById('equation_input').value}`;
window.location.replace(url);
}
I've tried a couple things, but I'm not sure what's causing the problem so I don't know exactly what to try.
No need for any js to do this. It can be done by default form submit by naming the input and setting action and method attributes of the form.
Note that an <input> has no submit event, only a <form> does
<form method="GET" action="https://exampleurl.com">
<input type="text" placeholder="Equation" id="equation_input" name="q" required/>
<input class="search_button" type="submit" id="search" value="Search" />
</form>
I have the following code:
<form>
<input type="email" id="login_email" required>
<input type="submit" value="Sign in" ng-click="signIn()">
</form>
The problem with above code is that signIn() method gets called even if there is an email validation error from HTML5 side. In general how to ensure that signIn() method gets called only when all the input validation of the form are successful?
Use $pristine to find out if the form is empty, and $invalid to find out if the form is populated but has invalid values (maybe an incorrect email, for example).
<form name="myForm">
<input type="email" name="email" ng-model="email" required />
<button ng-click="signIn()" ng-disabled="myForm.$invalid || myForm.$pristine">Save</button>
</form>
So now your submit button will be disabled (not clickable) until your form is valid.
EDIT
In order to validate only with HTML5 validation, add a name attribute to your form and you can access the validity of it during submission:
<form name="myForm">...</form>
$scope.signIn = function(){
if ($scope.myForm.$valid){
// do sign in logic here
}
}
Maybe even inline the logic on your submit button (if it works):
<input type="submit" value="Sign in" ng-click="myForm.$valid && signIn()">
So signIn would only be called if the first part was true.
EDIT 2
Based on the information found on the AngularJS docs here, can you try the following as well?:
<form name="myForm">
<input type="email" name="email" ng-model="email" required />
<button ng-click="signIn()" ng-disabled="signIn()">Save</button>
</form>
$scope.signIn = function () {
if ($scope.myForm.email.$error.required) {
// ...
}
};
We are now following the $scope.myForm.email.$error.required syntax approach.
Try logging $scope.myForm or $scope.myForm.email and see what you get as you modify the value.
I have two forms on my page...
<form method="post" action="">
<input type="text" name="name" id="name"/>
<input type="submit" name="form1_submit_pushed"/>
</form>
<form method="post" action="">
<input type="submit" name="form2_submit_pushed/>
</form>
On my php side I want to be able to know the value of the text input "name" when I push the submit button of the second form. Kind of like....
if(isset($_POST['form2_submit_pushed']))
{
echo $_POST['name']; //or something else?
}
The reason behind is that first form has a bunch of data that I don't want in the second form submission.
You could do something like this...this code uses jQuery:
<form id="form1" method="post" action="">
<input type="text" name="name" id="name"/>
<input type="submit" name="form1_submit_pushed"/>
<input type="hidden" name="form2_submit_pushed" id="form2_submit_pushed">
</form>
<form id="form2" method="post" action="">
<input type="submit" name="form2_submit_pushed"/>
</form>
<script>
$('#form2').submit(function(event) {
//prevent form2 from submitting and submit form1 instead...
event.preventDefault();
//before submitting, indicate that the "form2_submit_pushed" button was pushed
$('#form2_submit_pushed').val(true);
//submit form1
$('#form1').submit();
});
</script>
...but why you would want to I don't know. Why not make all the controls part of the same form? HTML is designed to send info from only one form (at a time) to the server...
UPDATE: Sorry, I didn't notice your line where you explain your reason for wanting to do this. If you want more explicit control over what gets sent to the server I recommend using AJAX to submit the form. Look at https://api.jquery.com/serializeArray/ and https://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/
Correct me if I am wrong here, but I beleive normal HTML will only post the inputs from the form you are posting from. One option would be to have a hidden input on the second form which gets updated via javascript during the input's change event.
So, you could do something like this (I don't recommend inline javascript but it should get you in the right direction):
<form method="post" action="">
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" onchange="document.getElementById('hiddenname').value=this.value"/>
<input type="submit" name="form1_submit_pushed"/>
</form>
<form method="post" action="">
<input type="hidden" name="hiddenname" id="hiddenname"/>
<input type="submit" name="form2_submit_pushed/>
</form>
Then you just need to get it using
$_POST['hiddenname'];
I have an html form that I want to only submit from a button located outside my form. I am using javascript to perform some verification and do not want the form to submit unless my javascript functions succeed. I found that if I have the button inside the form it will always submit regardless of the javascript, but if I have it outside the form when a user presses enter it simply submits the form. How can I force enter to perform the button javascript instead of submitting?
<form name="form1" action=<?$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"].'?'.$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]?> method="post">
<input type="text" maxlength="5" size="5" name="frmZip" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="frmLat" value="200">
<input type="hidden" name="frmLng" value="200">
<input type="submit" disabled="disabled" style="display:none" />
</form>
<button type="button" id="GetCoordinates" onclick="doClick();">Find Stores</button>
EDIT:
Found my solution.
I changed from
</form>
<button type="button" id="GetCoordinates" onclick="doClick();">Find Stores</button>
to
<input type="button" name="frmSubmit" onclick="doClick();" value="Submit">
</form>
This prevented the button from submitting the form so I submitted it in my doClick() via javascript.
EDIT 2:
While this seemed to work for a time, it has stopped catching the enter keystroke. I updated my button to:
<input type="submit" name="frmSubmit" onclick="return doClick();" value="Find Stores">
And always returned false in doClick(). This allowed me to submit the form via javascript once everything had executed.
While this doesn't answer your direct question, you can actually keep the button and simply use your validation on the form submit:
<form onsubmit="return validateForm()">
Then, in your validateForm method, return true or false indicating whether or not the validation has passed.
However to answer your direct question, you can also use the same approach on the submit button which will prevent the form from being submitted.
Update
As pointed out in the comments, an unontrusive solution is often desirable so here's that:
document.getElementById('theForm').onsubmit = function() { return validateForm(); };
Your button inside the form will not submit the form on enter if you add preventDefault...
$("form").submit(function(e) {e.preventDefault();});