How can I manually set an Angular form field as invalid?

Question

I am working on a login form and if the user enters invalid credentials we want to mark both the email and password fields as invalid and display a message that says the log

Answer 1

Though its late but following solution worked form me.

    let control = this.registerForm.controls['controlName'];
    control.setErrors({backend: {someProp: "Invalid Data"}});
    let message = control.errors['backend'].someProp;