Remember Password with AngularJS and ng-submit

Question

How do I get the browser to ask the user to remember the password when using ng-submit in an AngularJS single page application.

My Form:

Answer 1

The problem is the dynamically generated login form. After putting the form into the index.html it worked as expected. I guess this is a security issue.

The problem that then occurred was that the ngModels didn't get updated on autofill. After some searching I found the solution to that problem here. In AngularJS 1.2+ this is supposed to be fixed.

Answer 2

I didn't have to do anything special. But I noticed that while MS Edge and Firefox worked well and offered to remember credentials Chrome didn't.

So simply by providing name attribute to the login form and to username and password it seemed to work fine in Chrome. Autocomplete is on as well. Example:

<form method="post" class="form-horizontal well" ng-submit="login()">
        <div class="form-group">
            <label class="col-sm-4 control-label">Email Address</label>
            <div class="col-sm-8">
                <input name="username" ng-model="email" type="email" class="form-control" placeholder="user@example.com" autofocus="autofocus" autocomplete="on" required />
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="form-group">
            <label class="col-sm-4 control-label">Password</label>
            <div class="col-sm-8">
                <input name="password" ng-model="password" type="password" autocomplete="on" class="form-control" required />
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="form-group">
            <div class="col-sm-offset-4 col-sm-8">
                <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Log on</button>
            </div>
        </div>
    </form>

PS: I'm using Chrome Version 45.0.2454.93 m

Answer 3

Your form HTML is a bit confusing.

<form action="/#/dashboard/login" onsubmit="return false;" ng-submit="login()" name="loginForm">

When the form is submitted do you want it to go to /#/dashboard/login or do ng-submit="login()" ? At the moment, the ng-submit is being ignored in favour of the form action. If you want it to go to /#/dashboard/login as a new page, then just remove the ng-submit and onsubmit attributes and it will work as normal.

If you want it to do ng-submit="login()", then remove the action and onsubmit attributes. Angular automatically prevents form submission when a form with ng-submit does not have an action attribute too. Doing it this way will stop the browser remember password prompt as the form isn't actually submitted anywhere. I guess this is an area where browsers have yet to catch up to the era of the single page application, there's no direct fix for it that I'm aware of.

A workaround would be to have a separate hidden form in the HTML, set the username/password there to the same as the user enters in main form, and then submit that hidden form to an iframe at the same time as ng-submit is called - have a look at How can I get browser to prompt to save password? for ideas about how to do it.

Answer 4

Your code is ok, but you need to add the name attributes to your inputfields, such as:

<input type="text" name="username" ...>

and

<input type="password" name="password" ...>

Answer 5

The culprit is "return false;" on onsubmit. Remove that, and you're good to go. ng-submit takes care of the rest, such as not actually submitting the form when you hit enter in a field or click the submit button.