htmlcssangularjsrequiredng-required

Red asterisk after ng-required input (without label)

I'm looking for a CSS rule to apply a red asterisk after the inputs with the ng-required attribute.

The thing is, there is no label on those inputs, the placeholder is used as a label.

Those 2 inputs for instance :

<div class="row">
    <div class="col-xs-6">
        <input type="text" name="CACLastName" ng-model="cac.lastName" placeholder="NOM" ng-required="true" ng-disabled="$parent.isDisabled" class="form-control"/>
    </div>
    <div class="col-xs-6">
        <input type="text" name="CACFirstName" ng-model="cac.firstName" placeholder="Prénom" ng-required="true" ng-disabled="$parent.isDisabled" class="form-control"/>
    </div>
</div>

So I tried to play with :after but without success. Also, the :required only apply to the required attribute, not ng-required.

Solution

  • I tried CSS, and the selector does not seem to work at all for input elements while it will work for a div element. You can try the following, and you will see that the asterisk is inserted after the div and not after the input:

    <div class="row">
    <div class="col-xs-6">
        <input type="text" name="CACLastName" ng-model="cac.lastName" placeholder="NOM" ng-required="true" ng-disabled="$parent.isDisabled" class="form-control"/>
    </div>
    <div class="col-xs-6">
        <input type="text" name="CACirstName" ng-model="cac.firstName" placeholder="Prénom" ng-required="true" ng-disabled="$parent.isDisabled" class="form-control"/>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="text-div" ng-required="true">
  TEST DIV LOOK -->
</div>

    CSS:

    [ng-required]:after {
  content: "*"
}

    OUTPUT:

    enter image description here

    Jsfiddle live example of problem

    In my opinion this is a job for javascript. With your html, this code will work (native JS):

    var form_inputs = document.getElementsByClassName('form-control')

for ( var i = 0; i < form_inputs.length; i ++ ) {
    if ( form_inputs[i].hasAttribute('ng-required') ) {
    form_inputs[i].insertAdjacentHTML('afterend', '<span style='color: red;'>*</span>');
  }
}

    Jsfiddle solution