Trigger validation of all fields in Angular Form submit

Question

I\'m using this method: http://plnkr.co/edit/A6gvyoXbBd2kfToPmiiA?p=preview to only validate fields on blur. This works fine, but I would also like to validate them (and thu

Answer 1

One approach is to force all attributes to be dirty. You can do that in each controller, but it gets very messy. It would be better to have a general solution.

The easiest way I could think of was to use a directive

• it will handle the form submit attribute
• it iterates through all form fields and marks pristine fields dirty
• it checks if the form is valid before calling the submit function

Here is the directive

myModule.directive('submit', function() {
  return {
    restrict: 'A',
    link: function(scope, formElement, attrs) {
      var form;
      form = scope[attrs.name];
      return formElement.bind('submit', function() {
        angular.forEach(form, function(field, name) {
          if (typeof name === 'string' && !name.match('^[\$]')) {
            if (field.$pristine) {
              return field.$setViewValue(field.$value);
            }
          }
        });
        if (form.$valid) {
          return scope.$apply(attrs.submit);
        }
      });
    }
  };
});

And update your form html, for example:

becomes:

See a full example here: http://plunker.co/edit/QVbisEK2WEbORTAWL7Gu?p=preview