I've written a form with Angular.js that requires a field to be filled out before it is submitted. The validation works correctly (the field shows a validation error when I submit the form) but the form still seems to perform its ng-click action.
Are angular forms supposed to submit despite validation errors? What's the best way to prevent it from submitting if there are validation errors?
Here's the form in question:
<form role="form">
<div class="form-group">
<label>Book Id</label><br>
<input ng-model="bookToSend.bookId" class="form-control" maxlength="40" required type="text">
</div>
<button type="submit" ng-click="sendBookUpdate(BookToSend)">Send Book Update</button>
</form>
Angular doesn't prevent forms from submitting when there are validation errors.
Actually with the snippet you pasted, the errors are shown just because by default error validation is provided with html5.
You should check the docs: https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/forms
Basically you have to name your form:
<form name="myForm" role="form">
and then you can prevent your form from submitting inside your controller with:
$scope.sendBookUpdate(BookToSend, form) {
if (form.$invalid) {
return; // and add any error to the view if you want
}
...
}
another option is to prevent submitting from the view:
<form name="myForm" role="form" ng-submit="myForm.$valid && sendBookUpdate(BookToSend)">
You could disable the button until the form has valid data
<button type="submit" data-ng-disabled="form.$invalid">Send Book Update</button>
EDIT:
When I wrote the answer below, I was under the assumption that the ngClick was completely separate from any form submission handlers that angular uses. I was wrong, however, as shown in the comments below. I'll keep this answer up, despite its inaccuracy, to inform those that come here with the same misunderstanding as I had, since, to me at least, it's kind of counter-intuitive to have an ng-click double as a submit handler.
ng-click is separate from the form's submit handler, and will run every time you click the button regardless of whether or not it passes the validation checks.
The solution to your problem would be to take sendBookUpdate(BookToSend), and place it in an ng-submit attribute on the form itself. See the code below:
<form role="form" ng-submit="sendBookUpdate(BookToSend)">
<div class="form-group">
<label>Book Id</label><br>
<input ng-model="bookToSend.bookId" class="form-control" maxlength="40" required type="text">
</div>
<button type="submit">Send Book Update</button>
</form>
Let me know if that helps.
Edit:
Here's some more info regarding ngSubmit:
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngSubmit
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I have this form in my app and I will submit it via AJAX, but I want to use HTML5 for client-side validation. So I want to be able to force the form validation, via normal HTML field.
I want to trigger the validation without submitting the form. Is it possible?
HTML Code Example
<form id="frm" class="form-horizontal form-label-left">
<div class="col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12">
<input id="name" class="form-control col-md-7 col-xs-12" data-validate-length-range="6" data-validate-words="2" name="name" placeholder="both name(s) e.g Jon Doe" required="required" type="text">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-6 col-md-offset-3">
<button id="send" type="button" class="btn btn-success" onclick="saveForm()">Submit</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>
<hr />
<button id="checkValidity">Check Validity</button>
If you're using HTML5 validation, it won't let you submit the form if you give your button a submit type if there's some invalid data.
Also, it doesn't look like you don't need to use another method to submit the form. Your button:
<button id="send" type="button" class="btn btn-success" onclick="saveForm()">Submit</button>
calls a function saveForm(), so in that function, before you send your AJAX request, do any extra JS validation you want and then return early if you see it's invalid
You can manually check form validity using the checkValidity() method that is also raising the invalid event for each of the invalid elements in your form:
$('#checkValidity').click(function() {
// register named event handler for further removal
$('input:invalid').on('invalid.temp', function(e) {
// input is invalid
});
// trigger validation
frm.checkValidity();
// remove event handlers
$('input:invalid').off('invalid.temp');
});
See Fiddle
It is possible but why do you want to do it? If you want to change style or display an error message you can do so with CSS.
On MDN there is an interesting article on form validation.
If it's about styling you can use the :invalid pseudo class for example.
It would be helpful to know what you are trying to accomplish.
No, you can't validate all the fields without submitting, only thing you can do is to trigger validation on Onblur of each of the text fields.
No if you want to use, the required attribute for form validations then you need to submit the form. The other thing you can do which is very lengthy is have onblur and onfocus listeners on all input elements and validate the form with javascript. This is lengthy but gives a better user experience, as validation occurs on the fly and not at the end while submitting.
I'm trying to include static HTML form inside my Angular 2 (beta2) app but it doesn't do anything when I hit the submit button.
Here's the HTML I use:
<form action="upload_path" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="text" />
<button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>
How can I enable my form to work with Angular2?
With
<form ngNoForm ...>
you can prevent Angular from handling the form.
If you want to use the action attribute of HTML form, you need to disable the behavior of the NgForm directive that catches the submit event and prevents it from being propagated. See this line: https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/modules/angular2/src/common/forms/directives/ng_form.ts#L81.
To do that simply add the ngNoForm attribute to your form:
<form ngNoForm action="https://www.google.com" target="_blank" method="POST">
<input name="q" value="test">
<button type="submit">Search</button>
</form>
In this case, a new window will be opened for your form submission.
That said, Angular2 tackles SPAs (Single Page Applications) and in most use cases, you need to stay in the same page when submitting a form. For such use cases, you can leverage the submit event with a submit button:
<form [ngFormModel]="companyForm" (submit)="onSubmit()">
Name: <input [ngFormControl]="companyForm.controls.name"
[(ngModel)]="company.name"/>
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
Hope it helps you,
Thierry
Angular 2 adds an event handler to forms submit event and blocks the forms form being sent. This is done for the sake of normal AJAX use case where you don't actually want to submit the form (and thus reload the page), but instead catch it on JavaScript and send an AJAX request (or handle the data other ways).
You can bypass this by using your custom event handler which will be called first and in which you send the form already before it goes to the Angular's handler.
To do this, you need to add onsubmit="this.submit()" on your form element like this:
<form action="upload_path" method="POST" onsubmit="this.submit()">
I have a a HTML form. I have added required tag against each input fields for which I require it to be filled. I am using $<form-name>.<input.field.name>.$error in AngularJS to check for errors during submission and apply error class to those fields.
Is there a way to prevent HTML5 validation popup retaining the required attribute at the same time?
You need the novalidate attribute.
<form novalidate>
...
</form>
Form's novalidate attribute on MDN
You can show your error message inside dirty condition of angular js and not on submission. Try like this:
<span style="color:red" ng-show="$<form-name>.<input.field.name>.$dirty && $<form-name>.<input.field.name>.$invalid">
<span ng-show="$<form-name>.<input.field.name>.$error.required">Name is required.</span>
</span>
This will show error message on focus out only. And on submit, default HTML5 required field error message will be shown.
You have to put novalidate at your form element:
<form novalidate>
<input type="text" required>
<button type="submit">Save</button>
</form>
How to check the required fields of a form before submitting it in javascript ?
I'm working with Angularjs and as you probably know, I never reload the page.
I have created input text like this :
<input type="text" name="truck" ng-model="my model" typeahead="my typeahead" typeahead-min-length="1" required/>
Here is my submit button at the end of the form :
<button type="submit" ng-click="saveDelivery(newDelivery)" class="btn btn-primary">Create the delivery</button>
But when I submit, I go into "saveDelivery" first, and then I have the message from Google chrome : "Please fill in this field..."
How can I do to check the input before submitting ?
Look into the ng-submit directive.
This essentially looks in your defined form for any validation defined in your markup (required, type). All you have to do is take your click action and place it at the top of your form in the ng-submit directive.
<form ng-submit="saveDelivery(newDelivery)">
<input type="text" name="truck" ng-model="my model" typeahead="my typeahead" typeahead-min-length="1" required/>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Create the delivery</button>
</form>
Because your button is defined as type 'submit', this will submit the form, preforming the 'ng-click' action for you. Angular will essentially hijack the submit, and validate your form before submitting it to 'saveDelivery'. All you have to do is define what you want validated, whether it is 'required' input, or it you do type="email" on your input, it will use HTML 5 email validation and make sure it is an email address.
Angular made it VERY easy to add validation to any form. Once validation is passed, Angular will then trigger your saveDelivery method!
Edit: 2014-02-12 - Here is a very simple example. Try clicking the submit button when the input field has nothing in it. Chrome will show validation message, enter something and the alert will run, but the form will not submit.
Example: http://plnkr.co/edit/uGT3scGJtCVJkWE0B7zp?p=preview
The browser will do the validation when the form is submitted I think (Note: not verified, this is just how I understand the flow of events. I may be wrong)
You might want to handle the form submit event to do your saveDelivery call as that (form submit) ought to happen after the validation but before the form is actually posted back. saveDelivery will finish before the form submits, and you can cancel it if needed also and do your own thing...
For example this answer to another post shows how to handle the form submit and prevent it from occuring; this might be useful if you want to call your saveDelivery method to do the actual saving but don't want the form to postback
https://stackoverflow.com/a/5384732/94099
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