Can I access a form in the controller

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I m currently using the following    scope   childHead customerForm firstName   so that    lt form name  customerForm  gt     lt input type  text  name  firstName            ng-model  data customer firstName            tabindex  1             ng-disabled   data editable            validationcustomer   gt   lt  form gt    But this only works in Chrome  Now I tried the following      scope editCustomerForm firstName   so that    lt form name  customerForm  ng-model  editCustomerForm  gt     lt input type  text  name  firstName            ng-model  data customer firstName  tabindex  1             ng-disabled   data editable            validationcustomer   gt   lt  form gt    Which doesn t work  Note my form is inside a Foundation Tab  How can I access firstName   EDIT  It looks like the form isn t added to the scope when it s inside a Foundation Tab    Anyone has got a solution for this

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Yes  you can access a form in the controller  as stated in the docs    Except when your form is not defined in the controller scope and is defined in a child scope instead   Basically  some angular directives  such as ng-if  ng-repeat or ng-include  will create an isolated child scope  So will any custom directives with a scope     property defined  Probably  your foundation components are also in your way   I had the same problem when introducing a simple ng-if around the  lt form gt  tag   See these for more info    https   groups google com forum   topic angular B2uB8-9 Xbk AngularJS - losing scope when using ng-include   Note  I suggest you re-write your question  The answer to your question is yes but your problem is slightly different       Can I access a form in a child scope from the controller    To which the answer would simply be  no

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If you want to pass the form to the controller for validation purposes you can simply pass it as an argument to the method handling the submission  Use the form name  so for the original question it would be something like    lt button ng-click  submit customerForm   gt Save lt  button gt

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You can attach the form to some object which is defined in a parent controller  Then you can reach your form even from a child scope   Parent controller   scope forms         Some template in a child scope   lt form name  forms form1  gt   lt  form gt    Problem is that the form doesn t have to be defined in the moment when to code in the controller is executed  So you have to do something like this   scope  watch  forms form1   function form      if form           your code

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To be able to access the form in your controller  you have to add it to a dummy scope object   Something like  scope dummy       For your situation this would mean something like    lt form name  dummy customerForm  gt    In your controller you will be able to access the form by    scope dummy customerForm   and you will be able to do stuff like   scope dummy customerForm  setPristine       WIKI LINK     Having a     in your models will ensure that prototypal inheritance is   in play  So  use  lt input type  text  ng-model  someObj prop1  gt  rather   than  lt input type  text  ng-model  prop1  gt       If you really want need to use a primitive  there are two workarounds       1 Use  parent parentScopeProperty in the child scope  This will prevent   the child scope from creating its own property  2 Define a function on   the parent scope  and call it from the child  passing the primitive   value up to the parent  not always possible

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Though alluded to in other comments I thought I d spell it out a bit for those using the  Controller As  syntax    lt div ng-controller  MyController as ctrl  gt    lt form name  ctrl myForm  gt         inputs     Dirty    ctrl myForm  dirty         lt button ng-click  ctrl saveChanges    gt Save lt  button gt   lt  form gt    lt  div gt    Then you can access the FormController in your code like   function MyController          var vm   this      vm saveChanges   saveChanges       function saveChanges             if vm myForm  valid                    Save to db or whatever              vm myForm  setPristine

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Definitely you can t access form in scope bec  it is not created  The DOM from html template is loaded little bit slowly like controller constructor  the solution is to watch until DOM loaded and all the scope defined   in controller    timeout function        console log  customerForm     scope customerForm          everything else what you need

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add ng-model   ctrl formName  attribute to your form  and then in the controller you can access the form as an object inside your controller by this formName

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Bit late for an answer but came with following option  It is working for me but not sure if it is the correct way or not   In my view I m doing this    lt form name  formName  gt       lt div ng-init  setForm formName    gt  lt  div gt   lt  form gt    And in the controller    scope setForm   function  form         scope myForm   form      Now after doing this I have got my form in my controller variable which is  scope myForm

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This answer is a little late  but I stumbled upon a solution that makes everything a LOT easier   You can actually assign the form name directly to your controller if you re using the controllerAs syntax and then reference it from your  this  variable   Here s how I did it in my code   I configured the controller via ui-router  but you can do it however you want  even in the HTML directly with something like  lt div ng-controller  someController as myCtrl  gt    This is what it might look like in a ui-router configuration   views                                      templateUrl   someTemplate html                   controller   someController                   controllerAs   myCtrl                           and then in the HTML  you just set the form name as the  controllerAs   name  like so     lt ng-form name  myCtrl someForm  gt       lt  -- example form code here -- gt       lt input name  firstName  ng-model  myCtrl user firstName  required gt   lt  ng-form gt    now inside your controller you can very simply do this   angular  module  something    controller  someController                  scope           function   scope                var vm   this              if vm someForm  valid                    do something

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