How to find the invalid controls in Angular(v2 onwards) reactive form

I have a reactive form in Angular like below:

this.AddCustomerForm = this.formBuilder.group({
    Firstname: ['', Validators.required],
    Lastname: ['', Validators.required],
    Email: ['', Validators.required, Validators.pattern(this.EMAIL_REGEX)],
    Picture: [''],
    Username: ['', Validators.required],
    Password: ['', Validators.required],
    Address: ['', Validators.required],
    Postcode: ['', Validators.required],
    City: ['', Validators.required],
    Country: ['', Validators.required]
});

createCustomer(currentCustomer: Customer) 
{
    if (!this.AddCustomerForm.valid)
    {
        //some app logic
    }
}

this.AddCustomerForm.valid returns false, but everything looks good.

I have tried to find with checking the status property in the controls collection. But I wonder if there is a way to find the invalid ones and display to the user?


You can simply iterate over every control and check the status:

    public findInvalidControls() {
        const invalid = [];
        const controls = this.AddCustomerForm.controls;
        for (const name in controls) {
            if (controls[name].invalid) {
                invalid.push(name);
            }
        }
        return invalid;
    }

An invalid Angular control has the CSS class named 'ng-invalid'.

Under DevTools in Chrome, select Console tab.

In console prompt run the following command in order to get the invalid Angular controls that bear the CSS class 'ng-invalid'

document.getElementsByClassName('ng-invalid')

The output should be similar to this: enter image description here

In this case, the underlined text is for the form control listen-address and the encircled text: .ng-invalid indicates that the control is invalid.

Note: Tested in chrome


I just battled this issue: Every form field is valid, but still the form itself is invalid.

Turns out that I had set 'Validator.required' on a FormArray where controls are added/removed dynamically. So even if the FormArray was empty, it was still required and therefore the form was always invalid, even if every visible control was correctly filled.

I didn't find the invalid part of the form, because my 'findInvalidControls' function only checked FormControl's and not FormGroup/FormArray. So I updated it a bit:

/* 
   Returns an array of invalid control/group names, or a zero-length array if 
   no invalid controls/groups where found 
*/
public findInvalidControlsRecursive(formToInvestigate:FormGroup|FormArray):string[] {
    var invalidControls:string[] = [];
    let recursiveFunc = (form:FormGroup|FormArray) => {
      Object.keys(form.controls).forEach(field => { 
        const control = form.get(field);
        if (control.invalid) invalidControls.push(field);
        if (control instanceof FormGroup) {
          recursiveFunc(control);
        } else if (control instanceof FormArray) {
          recursiveFunc(control);
        }        
      });
    }
    recursiveFunc(formToInvestigate);
    return invalidControls;
  }

Now, in angular 9, you can use the markAllAsTouched() method to show the invalid controls validators:

this.AddCustomerForm.markAllAsTouched();