What it does

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

How to use

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 can 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 will give 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, you'll want to use NgModel with a name attribute. You can also use NgModelGroup if you'd like to create sub-groups within the form.

You can listen to the directive's ngSubmit event to be notified when the user has triggered a form submission. The ngSubmit event will be emitted with the original form submission 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
  }
}

• npm package: @angular/forms

• NgModule: FormsModule

Selectors

form:not([ngNoForm]):not([formGroup])

ngForm

[ngForm]

Outputs

Exported as

ngForm

Class Description

Constructor

constructor(validators: any[], asyncValidators: any[])