Disable submit button when form invalid with AngularJS

Question

I have my form like this:

<form name="myForm">
    <input name="myText" type="text" ng-model="mytext" required />
    <button disabled="{{ myForm.$invalid }}">Save</button>
</form>

As you may see, the button is disabled if the input is empty but it doesn't change back to enabled when it contains text. How can I make it work?

Answer 1

You need to use the name of your form, as well as ng-disabled: Here's a demo on Plunker

<form name="myForm">
    <input name="myText" type="text" ng-model="mytext" required />
    <button ng-disabled="myForm.$invalid">Save</button>
</form>

Answer 2

To add to this answer. I just found out that it will also break down if you use a hyphen in your form name (Angular 1.3):

So this will not work:

<form name="my-form">
    <input name="myText" type="text" ng-model="mytext" required />
    <button ng-disabled="my-form.$invalid">Save</button>
</form>

Answer 3

Selected response is correct, but someone like me, may have issues with async validation with sending request to the server-side - button will be not disabled during given request processing, so button will blink, which looks pretty strange for the users.

To void this, you just need to handle $pending state of the form:

<form name="myForm">
  <input name="myText" type="text" ng-model="mytext" required />
  <button ng-disabled="myForm.$invalid || myForm.$pending">Save</button>
</form>

Answer 4

If you are using Reactive Forms you can use this:

<button [disabled]="!contactForm.valid" type="submit" class="btn btn-lg btn primary" (click)="printSomething()">Submit</button>

Answer 5

We can create a simple directive and disable the button until all the mandatory fields are filled.

angular.module('sampleapp').directive('disableBtn',
function() {
 return {
  restrict : 'A',
  link : function(scope, element, attrs) {
   var $el = $(element);
   var submitBtn = $el.find('button[type="submit"]');
   var _name = attrs.name;
   scope.$watch(_name + '.$valid', function(val) {
    if (val) {
     submitBtn.removeAttr('disabled');
    } else {
     submitBtn.attr('disabled', 'disabled');
    }
   });
  }
 };
}
);

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Answer 6

<form name="myForm">
        <input name="myText" type="text" ng-model="mytext" required/>
        <button ng-disabled="myForm.$pristine|| myForm.$invalid">Save</button>
</form>

If you want to be a bit more strict