Angular.js programmatically setting a form field to dirty

Question

I am programmatically updating some of the fields on my form with a value and I would like to set the field state to $dirty. Doing something like:

Answer 1

Made a jsFiddle just for you that solves this issue. simply set $dirty to true, but with a $timeout 0 so it runs after DOM was loaded.

Find it here: JsFiddle

$timeout(function () {
  $scope.form.uName.$dirty = true;
}, 0);