My form is very simple. Think of it as having 1 field and one submit button. The validation I want is also quite simple, if the 1 field is empty, then the submit button will be disabled. If not, the submit button will work. I am trying to do this dynamically using AngularJs and not quite sure what I am missing.
Although I am using Django-forms, my form renders in Html like this:
<div ng-app="myApp" ng-controller="searchController">
<form method='POST' action='' class="form-with-blue-labels" name="searchForm">
{% csrf_token %}
<input class="textinput textInput form-control" id="id_professor_name" maxlength="255" name="professor_name" placeholder="Search for a professor" required="required" type="text">
<input ng-disabled="disabled_bool" type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" value="Search" />
</form>
</div>
And my angular file looks like this:
angular.module('myApp', [])
.config(function($interpolateProvider) {
$interpolateProvider.startSymbol('{$');
$interpolateProvider.endSymbol('$}');
})
.controller('searchController', [
'$scope', function($scope) {
var search_target = angular.element('#id_professor_name');
if (search_target == ''){
$scope.disabled_bool = true;
}
}
])
Note: Since I am using Django and Angular together in a non-restful way, I changed the angular tags to be {$$}, while Django tags are {{}}.
Any help is appreciated!
EDIT
I have tried this now, and still can't get it to work :/
<div ng-app="myApp" ng-controller="searchController">
<form method='POST' action='' class="form-with-blue-labels" name="searchForm">
{% csrf_token %}
<input ng-change="change()" class="textinput textInput form-control" id="id_professor_name" maxlength="255" name="professor_name" placeholder="Search for a professor" required="required" type="text">
<input ng-disabled="disable_button" type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" value="Search" />
</form>
</div>
using this function
angular.module('myApp', [])
.config(function($interpolateProvider) {
$interpolateProvider.startSymbol('{$');
$interpolateProvider.endSymbol('$}');
})
.controller('searchController', [
'$scope', function($scope){
$scope.change = function(){
if (angular.element('#id_professor_name').length == 0) {
$scope.disable_button = true;
}
else {
$scope.disable_button = false;
}
};
}
])
