Reputation: 5078
I am trying to implement a client side validation in angular using ReactiveForms. I get the error of "Identifier 'submitted' is not defined. 'FormGroup' does not contain such a member" in the line of
<div *ngIf="form.submitted && !firstName.valid">
and when I actually submit, my labels for validation, it does not appear. But if I remove the "form.submitted" my validation labels appear.
This is in the component.ts
to start the creation of the form:
ngOnInit() {
this.createForm();
}
createForm() {
this.form = new FormGroup({
firstName: new FormControl(null, {
updateOn: 'submit',
validators: [Validators.required]
}),
middleName: new FormControl(null, {
updateOn: 'submit',
}),
lastName: new FormControl(null, {
updateOn: 'submit',
validators: [Validators.required]
}),
userName: new FormControl(null, {
updateOn: 'submit',
validators: [Validators.required]
}),
email: new FormControl(null, {
updateOn: 'submit',
validators: [Validators.pattern(this.emailRegex)]
}),
password: new FormControl(null, {
updateOn: 'submit',
validators: [Validators.required]
})
});
}
and in my HTML I use it like so:
<form [formGroup]="form" (ngSubmit)="form.valid && onSubmit(form)">
<input type="text"
matInput
formControlName="firstName"
placeholder="First Name"
required
[ngClass]="{ 'invalid-textbox' : form.submitted && !firstName.valid }"
/>
<div *ngIf="form.submitted && !firstName.valid">
<label class="validation-message">First Name is required</label>
</div>
... Many others ...
<input type="submit" value="Sign Up" />
</form>
What can I try next?
Upvotes: 0
Views: 547
Reputation: 482
please create the filed submitted=false
in component.ts file then,
createForm() {
this.submitted = true;
if (this.registrationFrom.invalid) {
return;
}
alert('SUCCESS!! :-));'
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 18975
Change your code to
TS file using formBuilder to build form
constructor(private formBuilder: FormBuilder) {
}
form: FormGroup;
createForm() {
this.form = this.formBuilder.group({
firstName: ['', Validators.required],
middleName: [''],
lastName: ['', Validators.required],
email: ['', [Validators.required, Validators.email]],
password: ['', [Validators.required, Validators.minLength(6)]],
});
}
ngOnInit() {
this.createForm();
}
HTML
<div class="form-group">
<label>First Name</label>
<input type="text" formControlName="firstName" class="form-control" [ngClass]="{ 'is-invalid': submitted && f.firstName.errors }" />
<div *ngIf="submitted && f.firstName.errors" class="invalid-feedback">
<div *ngIf="f.firstName.errors.required">First Name is required</div>
</div>
</div>
https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-7-validate-form-angular
Upvotes: 1