In AngularJS, what's the difference between ng-pristine and ng-dirty?

Question

What are the differences between ng-pristine and ng-dirty? It seems you can have both to be true:

$scope.myForm.$prist         


        

Answer 1

ng-pristine ($pristine)

Boolean True if the form/input has not been used yet (not modified by the user)

ng-dirty ($dirty)

Boolean True if the form/input has been used (modified by the user)

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$setDirty(); Sets the form to a dirty state. This method can be called to add the 'ng-dirty' class and set the form to a dirty state (ng-dirty class). This method will propagate current state to parent forms.

$setPristine(); Sets the form to its pristine state. This method sets the form's $pristine state to true, the $dirty state to false, removes the ng-dirty class and adds the ng-pristine class. Additionally, it sets the $submitted state to false. This method will also propagate to all the controls contained in this form.

Setting a form back to a pristine state is often useful when we want to 'reuse' a form after saving or resetting it.