Despite following the usual process of creating a form in AngularJS, the ngSubmit function is not working as expected and the ngDisabled feature is failing to disable the button when the fields are empty. I even tried isolating the section in a new project to rule out any external dependencies causing issues, but the problem persists even after removing unnecessary elements. If anyone can spot what's going wrong, please help me out because it seems I've been staring at this for too long without progress.
I set up the form fields through the controller to confirm their connectivity, displayed user input using pre tags bound to ng-model to track changes, and verified no errors were present with Chrome's Angular plugin. However, the login() function doesn't trigger on submission and the button remains enabled despite the required fields being empty.
Below is a simplified version of the issue that continues to malfunction:
<div ng-app="myApp">
<div ng-controller="LoginController as loginCtrl">
<form name="loginForm" role="form" ng-submit="loginCtrl.login()" novalidate></form>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="username">Username</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="username" name="username" ng-model="loginCtrl.user.username" required>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="password">Password</label>
<input type="password" class="form-control" id="password" name="password" ng-model="loginCtrl.user.password" required>
</div>
<div class="form-group clearfix">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary btn-block" ng-disabled="loginForm.$invalid">Login</button>
</div>
<pre>user data = {{loginCtrl.user | json}}</pre>
<pre>form invalid = {{loginForm.$invalid}}</pre> <!-- always says false... but it is invalid -->
</form>
</div>
</div>
<script>
(function() {
'use strict';
angular.module('myApp', [])
.controller('LoginController', [function() {
var self = this;
self.user = { username: 'asdf', password: 'asdf' };
self.login = function() {
console.log("hello world");
};
}]);
})();
</script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.24/angular.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.1.min.js"></script>