[angularjs] AngularJS - difference between pristine/dirty and touched/untouched

This is a late answer but hope this might help.

Scenario 1: You visited the site for first time and did not touch any field. The state of form is

ng-untouched and ng-pristine

Scenario 2: You are currently entering the values in a particular field in the form. Then the state is

ng-untouched and ng-dirty

Scenario 3: You are done with entering the values in the field and moved to next field

ng-touched and ng-dirty

Scenario 4: Say a form has a phone number field . You have entered the number but you have actually entered 9 digits but there are 10 digits required for a phone number.Then the state is ng-invalid

In short:

ng-untouched:When the form field has not been visited yet

ng-touched: When the form field is visited AND the field has lost focus

ng-pristine: The form field value is not changed

ng-dirty: The form field value is changed

ng-valid : When all validations of form fields are successful

ng-invalid: When all validations of form fields are not successful