[ngForm] directive

Creates a top-level FormGroup instance and binds it to a form to track aggregate form value and validation status.

As soon as you import the FormsModule, this directive becomes active by default on all <form> tags. You don't need to add a special selector.

You optionally export the directive into a local template variable using ngForm as the key (ex: #myForm="ngForm"). This is optional, but useful. Many properties from the underlying FormGroup instance are duplicated on the directive itself, so a reference to it gives you access to the aggregate value and validity status of the form, as well as user interaction properties like dirty and touched.

To register child controls with the form, use NgModel with a name attribute. You may use NgModelGroup to create sub-groups within the form.

If necessary, listen to the directive's ngSubmit event to be notified when the user has triggered a form submission. The ngSubmit event emits the original form submission event.

In template driven forms, all <form> tags are automatically tagged as NgForm. To import the FormsModule but skip its usage in some forms, for example, to use native HTML5 validation, add the ngNoForm and the <form> tags won't create an NgForm directive. In reactive forms, using ngNoForm is unnecessary because the <form> tags are inert. In that case, you would refrain from using the formGroup directive.

Listening for form submission

The following example shows how to capture the form values from the "ngSubmit" event.

import {Component} from '@angular/core';
import {NgForm} from '@angular/forms';

@Component({
  selector: 'example-app',
  template: `
    <form #f="ngForm" (ngSubmit)="onSubmit(f)" novalidate>
      <input name="first" ngModel required #first="ngModel">
      <input name="last" ngModel>
      <button>Submit</button>
    </form>
    
    <p>First name value: {{ first.value }}</p>
    <p>First name valid: {{ first.valid }}</p>
    <p>Form value: {{ f.value | json }}</p>
    <p>Form valid: {{ f.valid }}</p>
  `,
})
export class SimpleFormComp {
  onSubmit(f: NgForm) {
    console.log(f.value);  // { first: '', last: '' }
    console.log(f.valid);  // false
  }
}

Setting the update options

The following example shows you how to change the updateOn option from its default using ngFormOptions.

<form [ngFormOptions]="{updateOn: 'blur'}">
   <input name="one" ngModel>  <!-- this ngModel will update on blur -->
</form>

Interface, extends ControlContainer