Prevent input from setting form $dirty angularjs

Question

I have an ng form on a page. Inside the form I have several controls which need to display a save dialog when the form is dirty, ie form.$dirty = true. However there are some na

Answer 1

Setting the $pristine property to false, only when initializing, works until you call $setPristine() on the form. Then your control has its $pristine back to true and changing the input's value would make your form dirty. To avoid that, set the $pristine on focus:

link: function(scope, elm, attrs, ctrl) {
    elm.focus(function () {
        ctrl.$pristine = false;
    });
}