AngularJS forms not finding input elements - javascript

At some point during the development of my app, AngularJS forms stopped working... Yes that means they used to work. That is, form elements are supposed to create their own scope with every <input /> by their name. However all my forms are now completely empty, as if I had no input elements with the name attribute. Now I can't make any sort of form validation. I've tried even the most trivial forms and still nothing:
<form name="form>
<input type="text" name="input" required />
</form>
Any suggestions as to how to debug this?

Hi to do validation your input have to have model directive please see here: http://jsbin.com/deref/1/edit
<form name="form">
<input type="text" name="foo" required ng-model="input.model"/>
<span ng-show="form.foo.$error.required">required</span>
</form>

Try console.log on the scope
console.log($scope.form);
If you have your controllers set up correctly, your form should be attached to the scope of controller.

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Angular1: How to reflect ng-model errors on another element?

I have a directive with the following template
<div>
<span class="label">My Label</span>
<input ng-model="name" required>
</div>
I want the label to be painted red when the input field is invalid.
How can I do that?
Currently I have another directive to sync all the errors from ngModelCtrl to the wrapping div
<div add-all-errors>
...
</div>
And the directive's link function does something like this:
const ngmodel = $element.find('[ng-model]').controller('ngModel');
$scope.$watch(()=>ngmodel.$error, addAllClasses, true);
Where addAllClasses simply makes sure the correct classes appear on the element..
I also tried just adding the same ng-model
<div ng-model="name">
...
</div>
But did not see the classes there..
any better way to do this?
This is why we use the angularjs form... I'm really not sure why people are against using a very handy feature.
I've made a plunker for you.
https://plnkr.co/edit/bGOcQjWzlRq2aTYZUYNm?p=preview
<form name="form">
<span ng-class="{red: form.name.$invalid}">Name:</span>
<input name="name" ng-model="name" required>
</form>
A little more insight of what's going on. form is added to the scope auto magically by angularjs by it's name. In this case, I named it form, however it can be any name.
Now form is an ngForm Object and adds all input field into it by their name attributes. This way we can do form.name to get another object similar to the ngForm Object. We can then use $invalid or $valid properties with ng-class.
ngForm is pretty powerful and is loaded with many cool properties and methods. Just call console.log(scope.form); You will need to put in a method and add it to ng-change to see updates.

Using a Form to Dynamically Change the URL in the Address Bar Part 2

Okay, so I asked a variant of this question before, but I think the thread has died at this point, and I have a followup question:
Using a Form to Dynamically Change the URL in the Address Bar
So, I was looking to find a way to use a form to quickly add a product to a Volusion cart by entering it's product code. Turns out, if you're on the cart page, the solution is this snippet:
<form action="ShoppingCart.asp" name="form" method="get">
<input type="text" value="" name="ProductCode">
<input type="submit" value="Add To Cart">
</form>
Well, this doesn't work at all on other pages...knowing very little about how GET forms work, I'd love to better understand why this is, and what I can do to make this work on, say, the homepage.
The site (currently) is: http://ezndb.cwjea.servertrust.com/
As you can see, I have the red area sporting the code that I used on the check out page, but it doesn't work...any suggestions? I know other threads have suggested javascript/jquery or php methods of getting this to happen...
any form with the method ="get" will append data to the url in name value pairs ( the name being the input name
<form action="#" name="form" method="get">
<input name="q" />
<input name="q2" />
<input type="submit" value ="click and look at the address bar, Probably won't work on stack though" />
</form>
It doesn't work because your store is a members only site so the customers cannot add items to the cart until they are confirmed members.

Input value not passing to URL

I have a total of two input values. Only one value passes to the url of the next page, but both should. What's causing this?
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/p8dCC/
HTML:
<!--form action="device" onSubmit=" get_search(); return false;" id="search-form-4" method="get" target="_top"-->
<div class="fix">Brand</div>
<input class="inputs" type="text" id="search_id" name="q3" placeholder="Send this" required="required" />
<br/><br/>
<div class="fix">Model</div>
<input class="inputs" type="text" id="search_id" name="q4" placeholder="And send this one too" required="required" />
<br/><br/>
<input id="search-button" class="" type="submit" value="continue" data-target="http://www.google.com/?item-description" />
<!--/form-->
You have two elements with the same id in html. So when you do this $('#search_id').val() only one of them will get evaluated and not both. Ids are supposed to be unique
After testing your code in a test page, I found that both inputs were in fact being passed through the URL.
You have commented out the form tags which I'm not sure if you did just for purposes on here.
kjs is correct as well, though using the same id would only effect the HTML. Using get as the method would bypass this issue as it would be passed the unique "name" attribute.
A form tag is required if you expect the html submission mechanism to work correctly on its own.
In the Javascript you posted though, you are treating document.location as an html element, wrapping it with jquery, then trying to use jquery's attr method on it. This won't work. Just access "location.href" directly without using jquery.
Additionally, as pointed out by another answer, your ids should all be unique.

angularjs form input suggestions

I have a problem with a form in angularjs.
Example with classic html & php
<form name="myForm" action="post.php" method="post" autocomplete="on">
<input name="namename" type="text" />
<input name="email" type="text" />
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
which works as expected. On the second visit, after i submitted the form for the first time, i just need to type the first letter and the input field will suggest something based on the first post.
The same form in angular.
<form name="myForm" ng-submit="test(user)" autocomplete="on">
<input name="name" type="text" ng-model="user.name" autocomplete="given-name" />
<input name="email" type="text" ng-model="user.email" />
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
On the second visit here the form will suggest nothing at all, which is very irritating.
Is there any fix for that?
Example
thanks in advance.
That behaviour you're describing is done by the browser and is not guaranteed to work in all situations. It's actually quite easy to do in AngularJS; just keep track of a shared state object. This can be done in several ways, the most easiest by using the value provider like this:
// Create an injectable object with the name 'userInput'
angular.module('myApp').value('userInput', {});
Now inject this object in the controller that is handling the form like this:
angular.module('myApp').controller('MyController', function($scope, userInput) {
// Assign the state object to the scope so it's available for our view
$scope.user = userInput;
});
Render the form as you did and you'll see that the state of the form is kept. In fact, this is one of the hidden gems when programming with Angular since it allows you to keep very complex state information, which was previously pretty impractical.
Live demo can be found in this plunker.
Edit
One way to get the autocomplete to work is to maintain datalist elements. Just store the previous entered values in an array and use a ng-repeat to render all the options. Associate the input element with the datalist using the list attribute and you'r good to go.
<input list="nameHistory" type="text" ng-model="user.name" />
<datalist id="nameHistory">
<option ng-repeat="item in userHistory.name" value="{{ item }}"></option>
</datalist>
Live demo can be found in this plunker.
Just add to the input tag this attribute autocomplete="off"

AngularJS Stop blocking form

I'm relatively new to AngularJS and I am trying to sumbit a regular form. I have basic form that looks like this:
<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
input type="text" class="title span5" name="post_title" placeholder="A catchy title here..." value="" />
<input type="file" name="post_image" />
<input type="submit" class="btn btn-success" value="Create Post" />
</form>
But I noticed that AngularJS adds its own values to the form.
<form method="post" enctpye="multipart/form-data" class="ng-pristine ng-valid">
And I am ununable to submit the form. How can I disable the automatic validation that Angular JS is adding to the app?
Quoted from the documentation:
For this reason, Angular prevents the default action (form submission to the server) unless the element has an action attribute specified.
IMHO, you should read the doc to gain some general understanding of single page application, and the reason why angular's preventing the default behavior.
UPDATE : This does NOT work ... well at least not in a way you'd like it to. Adding ng-non-bindable to the form or any input breaks ALL binding. So, your ng-model in the inputs won't work anymore.
ng-non-bindable is possibly your best choice. It will prevent AngularJS from doing ANY validation. So, you'll be responsible for showing invalid and checking validity.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/19387233/75644

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