AngularJS is Disabling Forms

[ghost]

If you create a form without an action and a controller in Angular, you will not be able to submit the form, see plunk:

http://plnkr.co/edit/gWFRMKGO3FzZtOgs4VmW?p=preview

Is this desired behaviour? If so, how do I disable it?

[caitp]

if action is falsy, then it will not submit the form natively. You could give it a value like action="#" or something, that would probably work.

[ghost]

I am not familiar with how all browsers will handle action="" on a form, but all browsers I have tested default action="" to the current URL and will submit the form. action="#" is different, particularly if you use the html base tag.

I have created a new plunk demonstrating it:

http://plnkr.co/edit/B8nrc4NzZg3TWVNzv7yB?p=preview

Case 1: Form with action="" inside ng-app - submission is disabled
Case 2: Form with action="" outside ng-app - submits to the current url

N.B. Angular will only disable submission if you create a controller.

I do not see why Angular would disable the form. It has not been told to do anything with any elements on the page. No modules have been loaded.

[Narretz]

There's a pull request to change that which needs some love: #3776
Having an empty action attribute is a valid use case.