Angular 17 Form Validation example (Reactive Forms)

In this tutorial, I will show you how to implement Angular 17 Form Validation example (and Submit) with Reactive Forms Module and Bootstrap 4.

More Practice:
– Angular 17 File upload example with Web API
– Angular 17 CRUD example with Web API
– Angular 17 JWT Authentication & Authorization example

Serverless with Firebase:
– Angular 17 Firebase CRUD example
– Angular 17 Firestore CRUD example
– Angular 17 File Upload with Firebase Storage

Using Template Driven Forms instead:
Angular 17 Template Driven Form Validation example

Contents

Overview of Angular 17 Form Validation example

We will implement validation for a Angular Form using Reactive Forms Module and Bootstrap. The form has:

Full Name: required
Username: required, from 6 to 20 characters
Email: required, email format
Password: required, from 6 to 40 characters
Confirm Password: required, same as Password
Accept Terms Checkbox: required

Some fields could be wrong:

Successful Submission will look like this:

Technology

We’re gonna use following modules:

Angular 17
Bootstrap 4
@angular/forms 17

Setup Project

First we need to add the ReactiveFormsModule into our App Module.

Open src/app/app.module.ts and import ReactiveFormsModule from @angular/forms:

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { ReactiveFormsModule } from '@angular/forms';

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    ReactiveFormsModule
  ],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

Import Bootstrap

Open index.html and add following line into <head> tag:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    ...
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
  </head>
  ...
</html>

Another way is installing Bootstrap module with command: npm install [email protected].
Then add following code into angular.json:

"styles": [
    "node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css",
    "src/styles.css"
],
"scripts": [
    "node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.slim.min.js",
    "node_modules/popper.js/dist/umd/popper.min.js",
    "node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js"
]

Angular 17 Form Validation with Reactive Forms

The app component contains Form Validation example built with the @angular/forms version 17.

Open app/app.component.ts, we’re gonna import necessary library first:

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { AbstractControl, FormBuilder, FormGroup, Validators } from '@angular/forms';
import Validation from './utils/validation';

We use Angular FormBuilder to create a FormGroup object (form property) which is then bound to the template <form> element (using the [formGroup] directive later).

Validators provides a set of built-in validators (required, minLength, maxLength…) that can be used by form controls.

A validator is a function that processes a FormControl or collection of controls and returns an error map or null (meaning validation has passed).

Validation is our custom class that provides custom validator function. I will explain it later.

export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
  form: FormGroup = new FormGroup({
    fullname: new FormControl(''),
    username: new FormControl(''),
    email: new FormControl(''),
    password: new FormControl(''),
    confirmPassword: new FormControl(''),
    acceptTerms: new FormControl(false),
  });
  submitted = false;

  constructor(private formBuilder: FormBuilder) {}

  ngOnInit(): void {
    this.form = this.formBuilder.group(
      {
        fullname: ['', Validators.required],
        username: [
          '',
          [
            Validators.required,
            Validators.minLength(6),
            Validators.maxLength(20)
          ]
        ],
        email: ['', [Validators.required, Validators.email]],
        password: [
          '',
          [
            Validators.required,
            Validators.minLength(6),
            Validators.maxLength(40)
          ]
        ],
        confirmPassword: ['', Validators.required],
        acceptTerms: [false, Validators.requiredTrue]
      },
      {
        validators: [Validation.match('password', 'confirmPassword')]
      }
    );
  }

  ...
}

We also have getter f to access form controls (form.controls) from the template. For example, we can get username field in the template using f.username instead of form.controls.username.

The submitted property helps us to check whether the form is submitted or not.

export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
  form: FormGroup = ...;
  submitted = false;

  constructor(private formBuilder: FormBuilder) {}

  ngOnInit(): void {
    ...
  }

  get f(): { [key: string]: AbstractControl } {
    return this.form.controls;
  }

  onSubmit(): void {
    this.submitted = true;

    if (this.form.invalid) {
      return;
    }

    console.log(JSON.stringify(this.form.value, null, 2));
  }

  onReset(): void {
    this.submitted = false;
    this.form.reset();
  }
}

Angular 17 Form Validation template

Now we create the form with input fields and validation messages.

We bind to the FormGroup object (form) in the app component using [formGroup] directive. Form submit event will call onSubmit() handler above using event binding (ngSubmit).

Validation messages will display after form submission for the first time by submitted property.

app/app.component.html

<div class="register-form">
  <form [formGroup]="form" (ngSubmit)="onSubmit()">
    <div class="form-group">
      <label>Full Name</label>
      <input
        type="text"
        formControlName="fullname"
        class="form-control"
        [ngClass]="{ 'is-invalid': submitted && f['fullname'].errors }"
      />
      @if (submitted && f['fullname'].errors) {
      <div class="invalid-feedback">
        @if (f['fullname'].errors['required']) {
        <div>Fullname is required</div>
        }
      </div>
      }
    </div>

    <div class="form-group">
      <label>Username</label>
      <input
        type="text"
        formControlName="username"
        class="form-control"
        [ngClass]="{ 'is-invalid': submitted && f['username'].errors }"
      />
      @if (submitted && f['username'].errors) {
      <div class="invalid-feedback">
        @if (f['username'].errors['required']) {
        <div>Username is required</div>
        }
		@if (f['username'].errors['minlength']) {
        <div>Username must be at least 6 characters</div>
        }
		@if (f['username'].errors['maxlength']) {
        <div>Username must not exceed 20 characters</div>
        }
      </div>
      }
    </div>

    <div class="form-group">
      <label>Email</label>
      <input
        type="text"
        formControlName="email"
        class="form-control"
        [ngClass]="{ 'is-invalid': submitted && f['email'].errors }"
      />
      @if (submitted && f['email'].errors) {
      <div class="invalid-feedback">
        @if (f['email'].errors['required']) {
        <div>Email is required</div>
        }
		@if (f['email'].errors['email']) {
        <div>Email is invalid</div>
        }
      </div>
      }
    </div>

    <div class="form-group">
      <label>Password</label>
      <input
        type="password"
        formControlName="password"
        class="form-control"
        [ngClass]="{ 'is-invalid': submitted && f['password'].errors }"
      />
      @if (submitted && f['password'].errors) {
      <div class="invalid-feedback">
        @if (f['password'].errors['required']) {
        <div>Password is required</div>
        }
		@if (f['password'].errors['minlength']) {
        <div>Password must be at least 6 characters</div>
        }
		@if (f['password'].errors['maxlength']) {
        <div>Username must not exceed 40 characters</div>
        }
      </div>
      }
    </div>

    <div class="form-group">
      <label>Confirm Password</label>
      <input
        type="password"
        formControlName="confirmPassword"
        class="form-control"
        [ngClass]="{ 'is-invalid': submitted && f['confirmPassword'].errors }"
      />
      @if (submitted && f['confirmPassword'].errors) {
      <div class="invalid-feedback">
        @if (f['confirmPassword'].errors['required']) {
        <div>Confirm Password is required</div>
        }
		@if (f['confirmPassword'].errors['matching']) {
        <div>Confirm Password does not match</div>
        }
      </div>
      }
    </div>

    <div class="form-group form-check">
      <input
        type="checkbox"
        formControlName="acceptTerms"
        class="form-check-input"
        [ngClass]="{ 'is-invalid': submitted && f['acceptTerms'].errors }"
      />
      <label for="acceptTerms" class="form-check-label">
        I have read and agree to the Terms
      </label>
      @if (submitted && f['acceptTerms'].errors) {
      <div class="invalid-feedback">Accept Terms is required</div>
      }
    </div>

    <div class="form-group">
      <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Register</button>
      <button
        type="button"
        (click)="onReset()"
        class="btn btn-warning float-right"
      >
        Reset
      </button>
    </div>
  </form>
</div>

Angular 17 Confirm Password validation

Now we will use Angular Custom Validator to implement password and confirm password validation..

– First, the validator returns null (meaning validation has passed) if there is any error on the control that we want to check (confirm password).
– Then, the validator checks that two fields match or not and set error on checking control if validation fails.

utils/validation.ts

import { AbstractControl, ValidatorFn } from '@angular/forms';

export default class Validation {
  static match(controlName: string, checkControlName: string): ValidatorFn {
    return (controls: AbstractControl) => {
      const control = controls.get(controlName);
      const checkControl = controls.get(checkControlName);

      if (checkControl?.errors && !checkControl.errors['matching']) {
        return null;
      }

      if (control?.value !== checkControl?.value) {
        controls.get(checkControlName)?.setErrors({ matching: true });
        return { matching: true };
      } else {
        return null;
      }
    };
  }
}

Run Angular 17 Form Validation example

You can run our App with command: ng serve.
If the process is successful, open Browser with Url: http://localhost:4200/ and check it.

Or run on Stackblitz:

Conclusion

Today we’ve built Angular 17 Form Validation example successfully with Reactive Forms Module & Bootstrap 4.

You can also use the Form Validation in following posts:
– Angular 17 File upload example with Web API
– Angular 17 CRUD example with Web API
– Angular 17 JWT Authentication example with Web Api

Or using Template Driven Forms instead:
Angular 17 Template Driven Forms Validation example

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Angular 17 Form Validation example (Reactive Forms)

Overview of Angular 17 Form Validation example

Technology

Setup Project

Import Bootstrap

Angular 17 Form Validation with Reactive Forms

Angular 17 Form Validation template

Angular 17 Confirm Password validation

Run Angular 17 Form Validation example

Conclusion

Further Reading

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Overview of Angular 17 Form Validation example

Technology

Setup Project

Import Bootstrap

Angular 17 Form Validation with Reactive Forms

Angular 17 Form Validation template

Angular 17 Confirm Password validation

Run Angular 17 Form Validation example

Conclusion

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