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Angular JS ng-Messages not displaying error messages

I am new to form validation using Angular JS so I looked around a lot and found one that was a nice tutorial. The tutorial can be found here. I know there are a few posts on Stack Overflow about ng-messages however I reviewed them and they do not seem to pertain to my issue.

I have installed ng-messages using bower and am running it with grunt. There are no error however my validation messages do not seem to fire off.

My HTML is as follows:

<form name="myForm" novalidate>
  <fieldset>

    <div id="number" ng-class="{ 'has-error' : myForm.clientNumber.$invalid && !myForm.clientNumber.$pristine }">
      <label for="client">SRF #: *</label>
      <input type="text" name="clientNumber" placeholder="Enter SR #" ng-minlength="3" ng-maxlength="9" required>
      <div ng-messages="myForm.clientNumber.$error">
        <!--<div ng-message="required" >SRF # is required.</div>-->
        <div ng-message="minlength" >SRF Number is too short.</div>
        <!--<div ng-message="maxlength">SRF Number is too long.</div>-->
       </div>
     </div>
   </fieldset>
</form>

Part of my app.JS is as follows:

angular
  .module('myApp', [
  // Angular
  'ngAnimate',
  'ngCookies',
  'ngResource',
  'ngSanitize',
  'ngTouch',
  'ui.router',
  'myApp.home',
  'restangular',
  'ngMessages'
])

Part of my controller is as follows:

(function() {
  'use strict';
  angular.module('myApp.home', [
  'ui.router',
  'myApp.myFactory',
  'ngMessages'
])
.config(homeConfig)
.controller('homeCtrl', home);

homeConfig.$inject = ['$stateProvider'];
home.$inject = ['$http','myFactory','$timeout'];

function home($http,myFactory,$timeout) {
  ...
}

What I have looked at and tried:

Some in the list are tutorials while others are posts on Stack Overflow: ngMessages/angular validation not working.

I do not understand why it does not work. All sites I have seen look to be implementing the same way.

Solution

All we need to do is adding ng-model to our input.

The ngModel directive binds an input,select, textarea (or custom form control) to a property on the scope using NgModelController, which is created and exposed by this directive.

In short, without ng-model on <input> element Angular does not care about it.

Look at working snippet below.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

  <head>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular.js/1.5.0/angular.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular.js/1.5.0/angular-messages.js"></script>

    <script>
      var app = angular.module('app', ['ngMessages']);
      app.controller('RegistrationScreenController',  function() {});
    </script>
    
  </head>

  <body ng-app="app" ng-controller="RegistrationScreenController">
    
    <form name="myForm" novalidate>
      <fieldset>
        <div id="number" ng-class="{ 'has-error' : myForm.clientNumber.$invalid && !myForm.clientNumber.$pristine }">
          <label for="client">SRF #: *</label>
          <input type="text" ng-model="clientNumber" name="clientNumber" placeholder="Enter SR #" ng-minlength="3" ng-maxlength="9" required>
          <div ng-messages="myForm.clientNumber.$error">
            <div ng-message="required" >SRF # is required.</div>
            <div ng-message="minlength" >SRF Number is too short.</div>
            <div ng-message="maxlength">SRF Number is too long.</div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </fieldset>
    </form>
  </body>

</html>