Why do we use form or ng-submit in angularjs?

Question

I am planning to have an angularjs application. We will be doing the CRUD operation using Web Api service. And these controller functions I can call from ng-click directive (I m

Answer 1

There are number of reasons outside of just submitting to use a

tag in your code. For one, angular wires up validation results right into the form object. If you didn't have the form, you wouldn't get that functionality.

I'd suggest taking a look at the example at the bottom of the Angular Form documentation to see why you may want to use the Form. You can see how the form.$valid and form.$error change if you clear out the textbox in the example.

https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/form

Regarding submitting, ngSubmit will prevent the default action of a form which is usually posting the server. Similar to the validation properties that exist, there is also a form.$submitted property that will be updated to true when the form is submitted with an ng-submit. This will not happen on an ng-click.

https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngSubmit