How to make ngMessage for required fields only show when dirty or submitting a form?

Question

I\'m using AngularJS 1.3.0 RC0 and angular-messages. ng-messages dutifully shows error messages for those \"required\" fields when a form is initially loaded and pristine. S

Answer 1

I was struggling with this and what was happening was my ng-messages were not appearing because the default browser behavior was not allowing invalid form submission with ng-required="true". To solve this you can decorate the form with novalidate. Here is the full working example for me:

  
  

    
Name is required.