190. TD Creating the Form and Registering the Controls

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In the last video,

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we had a look at the basic setup of our form.

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Now let's understand how Angular creates such a JavaScript object

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representing our form in the template -driven approach.

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The great thing is,

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you don't have to do anything.

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Well, almost anything.

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Make sure that in your app module,

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you actually import the forms module added here to your

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imports array and have the import at the top of this file.

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As the name implies,

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this built -in module shipping with Angular includes

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a lot of forms -related functionalities and is actually needed

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to get this template -driven approach to work,

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to get this form creation by Angular to work.

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Now,

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by default in a CLI project,

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this should already be imported,

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so it should work fine,

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but again,

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I'm just highlighting it because it's super important that you have this import,

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otherwise the following steps will not work.

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With this imported,

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Angular will actually automatically create a form for

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you, so a JavaScript representation of that form,

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when it detects a form element in HTML code,

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like it does here.

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So you can think of that form element serving as a selector

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for some Angular directive,

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which then creates such a JavaScript representation of the form

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for you.

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Of course,

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you can't see that.

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form representation as of now.

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And it would be very empty because one thing

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does not happen automatically.

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Angular will not automatically detect your inputs in

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this form.

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And the simple reason for this is that whilst you could argue that it should

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be able to scan your HTML code and detect that you have an input here and here

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and that you have a select dropdown here.

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you still might not want to add all these elements as

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controls to your form.

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So with control,

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I'm referring to what is in the JavaScript object.

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And again,

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not every input in your HTML code might be a control you want to have

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in your JavaScript form.

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Maybe you have a dropdown,

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which value only changes something you view on the

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UI, but the input should not actually be part of what gets submitted.

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Maybe you use some third -party package which adds some custom form controls

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which are not labeled input,

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which don't use input as a selector,

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and then Angular would have no chance of detecting that this is a control of your

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form.

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So you still need to register controls manually.

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You need to tell Angular,

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hey, within that form element,

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what should be an actual control of my form?

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And this is what we're going to do now.

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Tell Angular how does our form look like?

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Which controls do we want to have?

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In the template -driven approach,

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this is super simple.

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You simply pick the input which you want to add as a control,

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like this input here.

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And I'm just going to structure it a bit different to split it up

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over multiple lines to make it easier to read.

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And then you add ng -model,

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like this.

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Now,

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you might already know ng -model.

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from the two -way binding,

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two -way data binding,

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and it actually is the same directive.

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In two -way data binding,

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though, you saw that we used it with square brackets and parentheses wrapping

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ng -model.

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Now,

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we will have a look at this later again,

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but for now,

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let's add without any parentheses,

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without any square brackets,

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just like this.

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This will be enough to tell Angular,

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hey, this input

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is actually a control of my form.

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So ng -model in the end is a directive made

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available in the forms module,

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something I mentioned earlier in the course when we had a look at two -way data binding.

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This is key to understand.

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You can use it to get two -way data binding,

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but it actually is part of a bigger module with more features,

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giving you full control over forms.

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Now for this to work,

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for this to be recognized as a control in your form,

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we need to give Angular one other piece of information.

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The name of this control.

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Right now it would see,

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okay, this input should be part of the JavaScript object representation

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of this form.

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So whatever the user enters here as a value should be the value.

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of this control,

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but what's the name of that control?

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We need to give that information to Angular and we do this by adding

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the normal HTML attribute name.

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So name is nothing Angular 2 specific,

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name is the default attribute you can add to any HTML control.

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Now here the name might be username because that is what we can enter in this input.

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And with this,

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this control will be registered in this JavaScript representation

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of the form.

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Now I'll do the same for the email.

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Restructure it so that it's easier to read.

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Add ng -model.

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And add a name.

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Like for example,

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email here.

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Well and the same is true for the select here,

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which is just another type of HTML input Here we can also

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add ng -model

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And we can add a name like secret because I'm asking for a secret

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question here.

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And with that,

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we registered all the controls.

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Of course,

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we can't see that much though.

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Well,

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that is something we're going to have a look at in the next lecture when we see how we

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can submit such a form and therefore how we can see these

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key value pairs representing what the user entered into which

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input.

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