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

This is my final answer. Basically angular internally calls the $setDirty() function of the NgModelController when the input is interacted with, so just override that!

app.directive('noDirtyCheck', function() {
  return {
    restrict: 'A',
    require: 'ngModel',
    link: postLink
  };
  function postLink(scope, iElem, iAttrs, ngModelCtrl) {
    ngModelCtrl.$setDirty = angular.noop;
  }
})