Validate URL with AngularJS and HTML 5 - html

Good morning all:
Looks like a very common question, but after googling for hours I am not able to figure this out: how to validate an URL including www without http.
These is what I did:
Used the input type url: it does not accept www.google.com;
Changed the input type to text and used ng-pattern: I still get the www.google.com invalid;
Changed different regex but still not working.
So when I click on the submit button, I show an alert if the form is invalid (true invalid, false valid). Here is my Plunker
Thanks for the help

Instead of binding the regex to scope, you could directly add the regex to ng-pattern attribute. Like this:
<input type="text" ng-pattern="/^(http[s]?:\/\/){0,1}(www\.){0,1}[a-zA-Z0-9\.\-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,5}[\.]{0,1}/" ng-model="website">
I have updated the plunkr. Please take a look at this. Plukr

The thing here is, if you want to bind ng-pattern from controller, your regex shouldn't contain the starting and ending /s. Like this:
$scope.regex = "^(http[s]?:\\/\\/){0,1}(www\\.){0,1}[a-zA-Z0-9\\.\\-]+\\.[a-zA-Z]{2,5}[\\.]{0,1}$"
But, if you directly specify pattern like ng-pattern="/^(http|https|...)$/", you need the extra /s as well.
working plunker

Try using the ng2-validation library. It can be used to perform most validations you should ever need. Angular2 custom validation, inspired by jQuery validation.

I think we can also use AngularJs builtin URL validator.
<script>
angular.module('urlExample', [])
.controller('ExampleController', ['$scope', function($scope) {
$scope.url = {
text: 'http://google.com'
};
}]);
</script>
<form name="myForm" ng-controller="ExampleController">
<label>URL:
<input type="url" name="input" ng-model="url.text" required>
<label>
<div role="alert">
<span class="error" ng-show="myForm.input.$error.required">
Required!</span>
<span class="error" ng-show="myForm.input.$error.url">
Not valid url!</span>
</div>
<tt>text = {{url.text}}</tt><br/>
<tt>myForm.input.$valid = {{myForm.input.$valid}}</tt><br/>
<tt>myForm.input.$error = {{myForm.input.$error}}</tt><br/>
<tt>myForm.$valid = {{myForm.$valid}}</tt><br/>
<tt>myForm.$error.required = {{!!myForm.$error.required}}</tt><br/>
<tt>myForm.$error.url = {{!!myForm.$error.url}}</tt><br/>
</form>

`
if (this.resource.url.match("^(https:\/\/|http:\/\/)")) {
if (this.resource.url.match("^(https:\/\/www\.|http:\/\/www\.)?([da-z.-]+)\\.([a-z.]{2,6})")) {
}
else
{
errorMessages.push("url is invalid");
}
}
else {
errorMessages.push("url is invalid");
}
`

Related

appear an html element by clicking on a button with angularjs

I have an html form ( ) , I want that it is displayed when I click on a button.
the declaration of the form is the following :
<div id = "formulaire" class="gl" >
and the button is :
Edit
I use angularjs in my code . Please help me.
It better to use a simple variable than a function in this case. I would also recommend using controller scope when setting variables instead of the application scope so you don't run into issues with the variables when your application becomes large.
I also picked data-ng-click over ng-click because it will allow the html to validate correctly (which can be checked using the W3's validator).
Try this...
"use strict";
angular.module('myApp', [])
.controller("myController", function() {
this.edit = false;
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.4.5/angular.min.js"></script>
<div data-ng-app="myApp" data-ng-controller="myController as ctrl">
Edit
<div id="formulaire" class="gl" data-ng-show="ctrl.edit">
<form>
<fieldset>
<label>Field:</label>
<input type="text" />
</fieldset>
</form>
</div>
</div>
Have you looked into the ngShow directive? It ables you to show or hide a DOM element depending on whether the attribute expression resolves to a truthey or falsey value.
Add model change on click
Edit
And then display the form if model is true
<div id = "formulaire" class="gl" ng-if="show">

How do I reset a form including removing all validation errors?

I have an Angular form. The fields are validated using the ng-pattern attribute. I also have a reset button. I'm using the Ui.Utils Event Binder to handle the reset event like so:
<form name="searchForm" id="searchForm" ui-event="{reset: 'reset(searchForm)'}" ng-submit="search()">
<div>
<label>
Area Code
<input type="tel" name="areaCode" ng-model="areaCode" ng-pattern="/^([0-9]{3})?$/">
</label>
<div ng-messages="searchForm.areaCode.$error">
<div class="error" ng-message="pattern">The area code must be three digits</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<label>
Phone Number
<input type="tel" name="phoneNumber" ng-model="phoneNumber" ng-pattern="/^([0-9]{7})?$/">
</label>
<div ng-messages="searchForm.phoneNumber.$error">
<div class="error" ng-message="pattern">The phone number must be seven digits</div>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<div>
<button type="reset">Reset</button>
<button type="submit" ng-disabled="searchForm.$invalid">Search</button>
</div>
</form>
As you can see, when the form is reset it calls the reset method on the $scope. Here's what the entire controller looks like:
angular.module('app').controller('mainController', function($scope) {
$scope.resetCount = 0;
$scope.reset = function(form) {
form.$setPristine();
form.$setUntouched();
$scope.resetCount++;
};
$scope.search = function() {
alert('Searching');
};
});
I'm calling form.$setPristine() and form.$setUntouched, following the advice from another question here on Stack Overflow. The only reason I added the counter was to prove that the code is being called (which it is).
The problem is that even after reseting the form, the validation messages don't go away. You can see the full code on Plunker. Here's a screenshot showing that the errors don't go away:
I started with the comment from #Brett and built upon it. I actually have multiple forms and each form has many fields (more than just the two shown). So I wanted a general solution.
I noticed that the Angular form object has a property for each control (input, select, textarea, etc) as well as some other Angular properties. Each of the Angular properties, though, begins with a dollar sign ($). So I ended up doing this (including the comment for the benefit of other programmers):
$scope.reset = function(form) {
// Each control (input, select, textarea, etc) gets added as a property of the form.
// The form has other built-in properties as well. However it's easy to filter those out,
// because the Angular team has chosen to prefix each one with a dollar sign.
// So, we just avoid those properties that begin with a dollar sign.
let controlNames = Object.keys(form).filter(key => key.indexOf('$') !== 0);
// Set each control back to undefined. This is the only way to clear validation messages.
// Calling `form.$setPristine()` won't do it (even though you wish it would).
for (let name of controlNames) {
let control = form[name];
control.$setViewValue(undefined);
}
form.$setPristine();
form.$setUntouched();
};
$scope.search = {areaCode: xxxx, phoneNumber: yyyy}
Structure all models in your form in one place like above, so you can clear it like this:
$scope.search = angular.copy({});
After that you can just call this for reset the validation:
$scope.search_form.$setPristine();
$scope.search_form.$setUntouched();
$scope.search_form.$rollbackViewValue();
There doesn't seem to be an easy way to reset the $errors in angular. The best way would probably be to reload the current page to start with a new form. Alternatively you have to remove all $error manually with this script:
form.$setPristine(true);
form.$setUntouched(true);
// iterate over all from properties
angular.forEach(form, function(ctrl, name) {
// ignore angular fields and functions
if (name.indexOf('$') != 0) {
// iterate over all $errors for each field
angular.forEach(ctrl.$error, function(value, name) {
// reset validity
ctrl.$setValidity(name, null);
});
}
});
$scope.resetCount++;
You can add a validation flag and show or hide errors according to its value with ng-if or ng-show in your HTML. The form has a $valid flag you can send to your controller.
ng-if will remove or recreate the element to the DOM, while ng-show will add it but won't show it (depending on the flag value).
EDIT: As pointed by Michael, if form is disabled, the way I pointed won't work because the form is never submitted. Updated the code accordingly.
HTML
<form name="searchForm" id="searchForm" ui-event="{reset: 'reset(searchForm)'}" ng-submit="search()">
<div>
<label>
Area Code
<input type="tel" name="areaCode" ng-model="areaCode" ng-pattern="/^([0-9]{3})?$/">
</label>
<div ng-messages="searchForm.areaCode.$error">
<div class="error" ng-message="pattern" ng-if="searchForm.areaCode.$dirty">The area code must be three digits</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<label>
Phone Number
<input type="tel" name="phoneNumber" ng-model="phoneNumber" ng-pattern="/^([0-9]{7})?$/">
</label>
<div ng-messages="searchForm.phoneNumber.$error">
<div class="error" ng-message="pattern" ng-if="searchForm.phoneNumber.$dirty">The phone number must be seven digits</div>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<div>
<button type="reset">Reset</button>
<button type="submit" ng-disabled="searchForm.$invalid">Search</button>
</div>
</form>
JS
$scope.search = function() {
alert('Searching');
};
$scope.reset = function(form) {
form.$setPristine();
form.$setUntouched();
$scope.resetCount++;
};
Codepen with working solution: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/zGPZoB
It looks like I got to do the right behavior at reset. Unfortunately, using the standard reset failed. I also do not include the library ui-event. So my code is a little different from yours, but it does what you need.
<form name="searchForm" id="searchForm" ng-submit="search()">
pristine = {{searchForm.$pristine}} valid ={{searchForm.$valid}}
<div>
<label>
Area Code
<input type="tel" required name="areaCode" ng-model="obj.areaCode" ng-pattern="/^([0-9]{3})?$/" ng-model-options="{ allowInvalid: true }">
</label>
<div ng-messages="searchForm.areaCode.$error">
<div class="error" ng-message="pattern">The area code must be three digits</div>
<div class="error" ng-message="required">The area code is required</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<label>
Phone Number
<input type="tel" required name="phoneNumber" ng-model="obj.phoneNumber" ng-pattern="/^([0-9]{7})?$/" ng-model-options="{ allowInvalid: true }">
</label>
<div ng-messages="searchForm.phoneNumber.$error">
<div class="error" ng-message="pattern">The phone number must be seven digits</div>
<div class="error" ng-message="required">The phone number is required</div>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<div>
<button ng-click="reset(searchForm)" type="reset">Reset</button>
<button type="submit" ng-disabled="searchForm.$invalid">Search</button>
</div>
</form>
And JS:
$scope.resetCount = 0;
$scope.obj = {};
$scope.reset = function(form_) {
$scope.resetCount++;
$scope.obj = {};
form_.$setPristine();
form_.$setUntouched();
console.log($scope.resetCount);
};
$scope.search = function() {
alert('Searching');
};
Live example on jsfiddle.
Note the directive ng-model-options="{allowinvalid: true}". Use it necessarily, or until the entry field will not be valid, the model value is not recorded. Therefore, the reset will not operate.
P.S. Put value (areaCode, phoneNumber) on the object simplifies purification.
Following worked for me
let form = this.$scope.myForm;
let controlNames = Object.keys(form).filter(key => key.indexOf('$') !== 0);
for (let name of controlNames) {
let control = form [name];
control.$error = {};
}
In Short: to get rid of ng-messages errors you need to clear out the $error object for each form item.
further to #battmanz 's answer, but without using any ES6 syntax to support older browsers.
$scope.resetForm = function (form) {
try {
var controlNames = Object.keys(form).filter(function (key) { return key.indexOf('$') !== 0 });
console.log(controlNames);
for (var x = 0; x < controlNames.length; x++) {
form[controlNames[x]].$setViewValue(undefined);
}
form.$setPristine();
form.$setUntouched();
} catch (e) {
console.log('Error in Reset');
console.log(e);
}
};
I had the same problem and tried to do battmanz solution (accepted answer).
I'm pretty sure his answer is really good, but however for me it wasn't working.
I am using ng-model to bind data, and angular material library for the inputs and ng-message directives for error message , so maybe what I will say will be useful only for people using the same configuration.
I took a lot of look at the formController object in javascript, in fact there is a lot of $ angular function as battmanz noted, and there is in addition, your fields names, which are object with some functions in its fields.
So what is clearing your form ?
Usually I see a form as a json object, and all the fields are binded to a key of this json object.
//lets call here this json vm.form
vm.form = {};
//you should have something as ng-model = "vm.form.name" in your view
So at first to clear the form I just did callback of submiting form :
vm.form = {};
And as explained in this question, ng-messages won't disappear with that, that's really bad.
When I used battmanz solution as he wrote it, the messages didn't appear anymore, but the fields were not empty anymore after submiting, even if I wrote
vm.form = {};
And I found out it was normal, because using his solution actually remove the model binding from the form, because it sets all the fields to undefined.
So the text was still in the view because somehow there wan't any binding anymore and it decided to stay in the HTML.
So what did I do ?
Actually I just clear the field (setting the binding to {}), and used just
form.$setPristine();
form.$setUntouched();
Actually it seems logical, since the binding is still here, the values in the form are now empty, and angular ng-messages directive is triggering only if the form is not untouched, so I think it's normal after all.
Final (very simple) code is that :
function reset(form) {
form.$setPristine();
form.$setUntouched();
};
A big problem I encountered with that :
Only once, the callback seems to have fucked up somewhere, and somehow the fields weren't empty (it was like I didn't click on the submit button).
When I clicked again, the date sent was empty. That even more weird because my submit button is supposed to be disabled when a required field is not filled with the good pattern, and empty is certainly not a good one.
I don't know if my way of doing is the best or even correct, if you have any critic/suggestion or any though about the problem I encountered, please let me know, I always love to step up in angularJS.
Hope this will help someone and sorry for the bad english.
You can pass your loginForm object into the function ng-click="userCtrl.login(loginForm)
and in the function call
this.login = function (loginForm){
loginForm.$setPristine();
loginForm.$setUntouched();
}
So none of the answers were completely working for me. Esp, clearing the view value, so I combined all the answers clearing view value, clearing errors and clearing the selection with j query(provided the fields are input and name same as model name)
var modelNames = Object.keys($scope.form).filter(key => key.indexOf('$') !== 0);
modelNames.forEach(function(name){
var model = $scope.form[name];
model.$setViewValue(undefined);
jq('input[name='+name+']').val('');
angular.forEach(model.$error, function(value, name) {
// reset validity
model.$setValidity(name, null);
});
});
$scope.form.$setPristine();
$scope.form.$setUntouched();

Empty action attribute on a form with angularJS

I'm trying to submit a form the normal way in a AngularJS application but I encounter an issue : it seems that I must specify the action attribute.
According to the HTML specifications (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/association-of-controls-and-forms.html#form-submission-algorithm) :
If action is the empty string, let action be the document's address of
the form document.
But AngularJS refuses to submit the form if the action attribute is not filled.
A work-around I found would be to use action="#" but this is not an acceptable solution since I might use the hash and I don't want it to be rewritten.
Has anyone ever experienced this issue ?
Edit : I don't want to use angular for this form, I just want to submit it the "old" way
I created a small directive to solve this:
.directive('form', ['$location', function($location) {
return {
restrict:'E',
priority: 999,
compile: function() {
return {
pre: function(scope, element, attrs){
if (attrs.noaction === '') return;
if (attrs.action === undefined || attrs.action === ''){
attrs.action = $location.absUrl();
}
}
}
}
}
}]);
Seems to be good for me. It looks for a form where the action is empty, and sets it to the current url.
Actually, it doesn't set the action - it sets the attr value, so the actual form directive thinks it's got one.
Update by #Reimund is good - I have actually had to do the same.
New Update - I have added the option to add a noaction attribute to the form element; this enables you to return to a "normal" angular situation. Otherwise this directive will submit forms twice if using ajax.
In the library, you can see that Angular listens to the event submit of your forms without action : https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/b9fa5c5a6781f4e1ec337f27d55c69db491a6555/src/ng/directive/form.js#L331
You can comment this line, it works, but I'm against editing the code of libraries.
Few lines after, you can see that Angular listening to the event $destroy enabling to remove the action on this event.
Therefore, to avoid modifying Angular, you can just trigger this event of your form:
angular.element(document).ready(function(){
angular.element(document.querySelector("#loginForm")).triggerHandler("$destroy")‌​;
});
The reason of this behavior is described few lines above:
we can't use jq events because if a form is destroyed during submission the default action is not prevented.
And the related issue is: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/1238
You can use ng-submit.
Form
<form name="test" action="" ng-submit="submit()">
What's your name? <input ng-model="name" /><br />
<button>Send</button>
</form>
<br />
My name is: {{name}}
JS
var app = angular.module('App', []);
app.controller('AppCtrl', function($scope) {
$scope.submit = function() {
$scope.name = $scope.name + ' Doe';
}
});
Plunker http://plnkr.co/edit/rqAwxWmozrzwwj4oAU5k?p=preview
Normally I simply make button with ng-click handler.
<button ng-click="Generate()">Submit</button><br>

How can I detect keydown or keypress event in angular.js?

I'm trying to get the value of a mobile number textbox to validate its input value using angular.js. I'm a newbie in using angular.js and not so sure how to implement those events and put some javascript to validate or manipulate the form inputs on my html code.
This is my HTML:
<div>
<label for="mobile_number">Mobile Number</label>
<input type="text" id="mobile_number" placeholder="+639178983214" required
ngcontroller="RegisterDataController" ng-keydown="keydown">
</div>
And my controller:
function RegisterDataController($scope, $element) {
console.log('register data controller');
console.log($element);
$scope.keydown = function(keyEvent) {
console.log('keydown -'+keyEvent);
};
}
I'm not sure how to use the keydown event in angular.js, I also searched how to properly use it. And can i validate my inputs on the directives? Or should I use a controller like what I've done to use the events like keydown or keypress?
Update:
ngKeypress, ngKeydown and ngKeyup are now part of AngularJS.
<!-- you can, for example, specify an expression to evaluate -->
<input ng-keypress="count = count + 1" ng-init="count=0">
<!-- or call a controller/directive method and pass $event as parameter.
With access to $event you can now do stuff like
finding which key was pressed -->
<input ng-keypress="changed($event)">
Read more here:
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngKeypress
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngKeydown
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngKeyup
Earlier solutions:
Solution 1: Use ng-change with ng-model
<input type="text" placeholder="+639178983214" ng-model="mobileNumber"
ng-controller="RegisterDataController" ng-change="keydown()">
JS:
function RegisterDataController($scope) {
$scope.keydown = function() {
/* validate $scope.mobileNumber here*/
};
}
Solution 2. Use $watch
<input type="text" placeholder="+639178983214" ng-model="mobileNumber"
ng-controller="RegisterDataController">
JS:
$scope.$watch("mobileNumber", function(newValue, oldValue) {
/* change noticed */
});
You were on the right track with your "ng-keydown" attribute on the input, but you missed a simple step. Just because you put the ng-keydown attribute there, doesn't mean angular knows what to do with it. That's where "directives" come into play. You used the attribute correctly, but you now need to write a directive that will tell angular what to do when it sees that attribute on an html element.
The following is an example of how you would do that. We'll rename the directive from ng-keydown to on-keydown (to avoid breaking the "best practice" found here):
var mod = angular.module('mydirectives');
mod.directive('onKeydown', function() {
return {
restrict: 'A',
link: function(scope, elem, attrs) {
// this next line will convert the string
// function name into an actual function
var functionToCall = scope.$eval(attrs.ngKeydown);
elem.on('keydown', function(e){
// on the keydown event, call my function
// and pass it the keycode of the key
// that was pressed
// ex: if ENTER was pressed, e.which == 13
functionToCall(e.which);
});
}
};
});
The directive simple tells angular that when it sees an HTML attribute called "ng-keydown", it should listen to the element that has that attribute and call whatever function is passed to it. In the html you would have the following:
<input type="text" on-keydown="onKeydown">
And then in your controller (just like you already had), you would add a function to your controller's scope that is called "onKeydown", like so:
$scope.onKeydown = function(keycode){
// do something with the keycode
}
Hopefully that helps either you or someone else who wants to know
You can checkout Angular UI # http://angular-ui.github.io/ui-utils/ which provide details event handle callback function for detecting keydown,keyup,keypress
(also Enter key, backspace key, alter key ,control key)
<textarea ui-keydown="{27:'keydownCallback($event)'}"></textarea>
<textarea ui-keypress="{13:'keypressCallback($event)'}"></textarea>
<textarea ui-keydown="{'enter alt-space':'keypressCallback($event)'}"> </textarea>
<textarea ui-keyup="{'enter':'keypressCallback($event)'}"> </textarea>
JavaScript code using ng-controller:
$scope.checkkey = function (event) {
alert(event.keyCode); //this will show the ASCII value of the key pressed
}
In HTML:
<input type="text" ng-keypress="checkkey($event)" />
You can now place your checks and other conditions using the keyCode method.

Can div with contenteditable=true be passed through form?

Can <div contenteditable="true">Some Text</div> be used instead of texarea and then passed trough form somehow?
Ideally without JS
Using HTML5, how do I use contenteditable fields in a form submission?
Content Editable does not work as a form element. Only javascript can allow it to work.
EDIT: In response to your comment... This should work.
<script>
function getContent(){
document.getElementById("my-textarea").value = document.getElementById("my-content").innerHTML;
}
</script>
<div id="my-content" contenteditable="true">Some Text</div>
<form action="some-page.php" onsubmit="return getContent()">
<textarea id="my-textarea" style="display:none"></textarea>
<input type="submit" />
</form>
I have tested and verified that this does work in FF and IE9.
You could better use:
<script>
function getContent(){
document.getElementById("my-textarea").value = document.getElementById("my-content").innerText;
}
</script>
NOTE: I changed innerHTML to innerText. This way you don't get HTML elements and text but only text.
Example: I submited "text", innerHTML gives the value: "\r\n text". It filters out "text" but it's longer then 4 characters.
innerText gives the value "text".
This is useful if you want to count the characters.
Try out this
document.getElementById('formtextarea').value=document.getElementById('editable_div').innerHTML;
a full example:-
<script>
function getContent() {
var div_val = document.getElementById("editablediv").innerHTML;
document.getElementById("formtextarea").value = div_val;
if (div_val == '') {
//alert("option alert or show error message")
return false;
//empty form will not be submitted. You can also alert this message like this.
}
}
</script>
`
<div id="editablediv" contenteditable="true">
Some Text</div>
<form id="form" action="action.php" onsubmit="return getContent()">
<textarea id="formtextarea" style="display:none"></textarea>
<input type="submit" />
</form>
`
Instead of this, you can use JQuery (if there is boundation to use JQuery for auto-resizing textarea or any WYSIWYG text editor)
Without JS it doesn't seem possible unfortunately.
If anyone is interested I patched up a solution with VueJS for a similar problem. In my case I have:
<h2 #focusout="updateMainMessage" v-html="mainMessage" contenteditable="true"></h2>
<textarea class="d-none" name="gift[main_message]" :value="mainMessage"></textarea>
In "data" you can set a default value for mainMessage, and in methods I have:
methods: {
updateMainMessage: function(e) {
this.mainMessage = e.target.innerText;
}
}
"d-none" is a Boostrap 4 class for display none.
Simple as that, and then you can get the value of the contenteditable field inside "gift[main_message]" during a normal form submit for example. I'm not interested in formatting, therefore "innerText" works better than "innerHTML" for me.