Angular - Submit a form programmatically.
I have a form group on the HTML and I want the component to submit the form's action with an email field in a post method. Instead of using a normal submit button.
Below's testMethod gets called from another button. In this method, I want to post the testForm. It has to be posted old school way as it needs an action.
This is my HTML:
<form
[formGroup]="testGroup"
[action]='actionLink'
method='POST'
#testForm>
<input name='Email' type='hidden' [value]='currentUserEmail'>
</form>
This is my Component TS file attempt:
@ViewChild('testForm') testFormElement;
public currentUserEmail: string = '';
public testGroup = this.formBuilder.group({
Email: ''
});
public testMethod(): void {
// Below: This currently doesnt seem to do anything.
this.testFormElement.ngSubmit.emit();
}
import { Component, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
@Component({
template: `
<form #testForm>
<input name='Email' type='hidden'>
</form>
`
})
class MyComponent {
@ViewChild('testForm') testFormEl;
testMethod() {
this.testFormEl.nativeElement.submit()
}
}
You can use ngNoForm with your form to remove ngForm handling and to add plain javascript handler.
you can use your code as follows:
Html file.
<form ngNoForm
[formGroup]="testGroup"
[action]='actionLink'
method='POST'
#testForm>
<input name='Email' type='hidden' [value]='currentUserEmail'>
</form>
Ts File.
@ViewChild('testForm') testFormElement;
public currentUserEmail: string = '';
public testGroup = this.formBuilder.group({
Email: ''
});
public testMethod(): void {
this.testFormElement.nativeElement.submit();
}
Regarding "Angular - Submit a form programmatically"
Here is code where a form submits itself. It works for me. Hope this helps.
Component HTML:
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<form #myForm ngNoForm name="myForm" [action]="pdfServletUrl" target="_blank" method="POST">
<button type="submit" [hidden]="'true'"></button>
</form>
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Component TypeScript:
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@ViewChild('myForm') myForm : ElementRef;
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ngAfterViewInit() {
this.myForm.nativeElement.submit();
}
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I think you should get ngForm in your code. So, rewrite your code as follows:
<form
[formGroup]="testGroup"
[action]='actionLink'
method='POST'
#testForm="ngForm" (ngSubmit)="testForm.form.valid ? yourSaveMethod() :showValidatinErrors()">
<input name='Email' type='hidden' [value]='currentUserEmail'>
and in your ts file:
`@ViewChild('testForm') testFormElement:ngForm;
public testMethod(): void {
// Below: This works for me.
this.testFormElement.ngSubmit.emit();
}
public yourSaveMethod(): void {
// post your model here.
}