How to trigger form validation on button click in angular2

Question

I am working on angular2 application in which I have to apply validation on the input fields.

I have same code here

http://plnkr.co/edit/6RkM0eRftf3KQpoDCktz?p=preview

Its work fine for me but i want to trigger the validation on button click and show the all the validation messages which are invalid

currently it activated when i click on fields.

I have tried this

saveUser() {
        if (this.userForm.valid) {
            alert(`Name: ${this.userForm.value.name} Email: ${this.userForm.value.email}`);
        } else {
            this.userForm.validator();
        }
    }

Its not working as expected.

How do i trigger those validation on button click, I want button to be active all the time.

Answer 1

You could try to leverage a submitted property of the form control when displaying errors. This could be used in the corresponding ngIf to display these messages.

<span *ngIf="submitted && !this.userForm.controls.email.valid">...</span>

You need to initialize the submitted property to false by default and set it to true when calling the saveUser method:

@Component({
})
export class SomeComponent {
  constructor() {
    this.submitted = false;
  }

  saveUser() {
    this.submitted = true;
    (...)
  }
}

This way they will be visible only after the form has been submitted.