How to clear form after submit in Angular 2?

Question

I have some simple angular 2 component with template. How to clear form and all fields after submit?. I can't reload page. After set data with date.setValue('') field is stil touched.

import {Component} from 'angular2/core';
import {FORM_DIRECTIVES, FormBuilder, ControlGroup, Validators, Control} from 'angular2/common';

@Component({
    selector: 'loading-form',
    templateUrl: 'app/loadings/loading-form.component.html',
    directives: [FORM_DIRECTIVES]
})

export class LoadingFormComponent {
    private form:ControlGroup;
    private date:Control;
    private capacity:Control;

    constructor(private _loadingsService:LoadingsService, fb:FormBuilder) {
        this.date = new Control('', Validators.required);
        this.capacity = new Control('', Validators.required);
        this.form = fb.group({
            'date': this.date,
            'capacity': this.capacity
        });
    }

    onSubmit(value:any):void {
        //send some data to backend
    }
}

loading-form.component.html

<div class="card card-block">
    <h3 class="card-title">Loading form</h3>

    <form (ngSubmit)="onSubmit(form.value)" [ngFormModel]="form">
        <fieldset class="form-group" [class.has-danger]="!date.valid && date.touched">
            <label class="form-control-label" for="dateInput">Date</label>
            <input type="text" class="form-control form-control-danger form-control-success" id="dateInput"
                   min="0" placeholder="Enter loading date"
                   [ngFormControl]="form.controls['date']">
        </fieldset>
        <fieldset class="form-group" [class.has-danger]="!capacity.valid && capacity.touched">
            <label class="form-control-label" for="capacityInput">Capacity</label>
            <input type="number" class="form-control form-control-danger form-control-success" id="capacityInput"
                   placeholder="Enter capacity"
                   [ngFormControl]="form.controls['capacity']">
        </fieldset>
        <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" [disabled]="!form.valid">Submit
        </button>
    </form>
</div>

Answer 1

To reset your form after submitting, you can just simply invoke this.form.reset(). By calling reset() it will:

1. Mark the control and child controls as pristine.
2. Mark the control and child controls as untouched.
3. Set the value of control and child controls to custom value or null.
4. Update value/validity/errors of affected parties.

Please find this pull request for a detailed answer. FYI, this PR has already been merged to 2.0.0.

Hopefully this can be helpful and let me know if you have any other questions in regards to Angular2 Forms.

Answer 2

Hm, now (23 Jan 2017 with angular 2.4.3) I made it work like this:

newHero() {
    return this.model = new Hero(42, 'APPLIED VALUE', '');
}
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" (click)="heroForm.resetForm(newHero())">New Hero</button>

Answer 3

See also https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/guide/reactive-forms.html (section "reset the form flags")

>=RC.6

In RC.6 it should be supported to update the form model. Creating a new form group and assigning to myForm

[formGroup]="myForm"

will also be supported (https://github.com/angular/angular/pull/11051#issuecomment-243483654)

>=RC.5

form.reset();

In the new forms module (>= RC.5) NgForm has a reset() method and also supports a forms reset event. https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/6fd5bc075d70879c487c0188f6cd5b148e72a4dd/modules/%40angular/forms/src/directives/ng_form.ts#L179

<=RC.3

This will work:

onSubmit(value:any):void {
  //send some data to backend
  for(var name in form.controls) {
    (<Control>form.controls[name]).updateValue('');
    /*(<FormControl>form.controls[name]).updateValue('');*/ this should work in RC4 if `Control` is not working, working same in my case
    form.controls[name].setErrors(null);
  }
}

See also

• https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/6196
• https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/6169
• https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/4933
• https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/4914
• https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/6371

Answer 4

Make a Call clearForm(); in your .ts file

Try like below example code snippet to clear your form data.

clearForm() {

this.addContactForm.reset({
      'first_name': '',
      'last_name': '',
      'mobile': '',
      'address': '',
      'city': '',
      'state': '',
      'country': '',
       'zip': ''
     });
}

Answer 5

As of Angular2 RC5, myFormGroup.reset() seems to do the trick.

Answer 6

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) {

        // some stuff

        f.resetForm();
    }
}