vue-form

vue-form

Form validation for Vue.js 1.0+. Works along side v-model but can also be used on your custom form control components (tinymce, select2, tag-editor etc).

Install

Available through npm as vue-form.

// es6: import * as vueForm from 'vue-form'; 
var vueForm = require('vue-form');
Vue.use(vueForm);

You can also directly include it with a <script> tag when you have Vue itself included globally. It will automatically install itself.

Usage

This plugin registers two global directives, v-form and v-form-ctrl. Apply the v-form directive to a form element, and set the name attribute. This name will hold the overall form state object and is created on the current vm.

Apply the v-form-ctrl directive to each of the form inputs. v-form-ctrl will watch v-model and validate on change. Use static or binding attributes to specify validators (required, maxlength, type="email", type="url", etc)

<form v-form name="myform" @submit.prevent="onSubmit">
	<div class="errors" v-if="myform.$submitted">
		<p v-if="myform.name.$error.required">Name is required.</p>
		<p v-if="myform.email.$error.email">Email is not valid.</p>
	</div>
	<label>
		<span>Name *</span>
		<input v-model="model.name" v-form-ctrl required name="name" />
	</label>
	<label>
		<span>Email</span>
		<input v-model="model.email" v-form-ctrl name="email" type="email" />
	</label>
	<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
<pre>{{ myform | json }}</pre>

myform will be an object with the following properties:

{
  "$name": "myform",
  "$dirty": false,
  "$pristine": true,
  "$valid": false,
  "$invalid": true,
  "$submitted": false,
  "$error": {
    "name": {
      "$name": "name",
      "$dirty": false,
      "$pristine": true,
      "$valid": false,
      "$invalid": true,
      "$error": {
        "required": true
      }
    }
  },
  "name": {
    "$name": "name",
    "$dirty": false,
    "$pristine": true,
    "$valid": false,
    "$invalid": true,
    "$error": {
      "required": true
    }
  },
  "email": {
    "$name": "email",
    "$dirty": false,
    "$pristine": true,
    "$valid": true,
    "$invalid": false,
    "$error": {}
  }
}

Validators

Built in validators:

type="email"
type="url"
type="number"
required
minlength
maxlength
pattern
min (for type="number")
max (for type="number")

You can use static validation attributes or bindings. If it is a binding, the input will be re-validated every binding update meaning you can have inputs which are conditionally required etc.

<!-- static validators -->
<input type="email" name="email" v-model="model.email" v-form-ctrl required />
<input type="text" name="name" v-model="model.name" v-form-ctrl maxlength="25" minlength="5" />

<!-- bound validators -->
<input type="email" name="email" v-model="model.email" v-form-ctrl :required="isRequired" />
<input type="text" name="name" v-model="model.name" v-form-ctrl :maxlength="maxLen" :minlength="minLen" />

State classes

As form and input validation states change, state classes are added and removed

Possible form classes:

vf-dirty, vf-pristine, vf-valid, vf-invalid, vf-submitted

Possible input classes:

vf-dirty, vf-pristine, vf-valid, vf-invalid

// also for every validation error, a class will be added, e.g.
vf-invalid-required, vf-invalid-minlength, vf-invalid-max, etc

Custom validator:

<input v-model="something" v-form-ctrl name="something" custom-validator="customValidator" />

// ...
methods: {
	customValidator: function (value) {
		// return true to set input as $valid, false to set as $invalid
		return value === 'custom';
	}
}
// ...

Custom form control component

You can also use vue-form on your own form components. Simply wrap your component with an element with v-form-ctrl, name and any validation attributes. Set v-form-ctrl to the same property you will be updating via two-way binding in your component. You can also get a hook into the internals of v-form-ctrl to mange control state.

See custom tinymce component validation example

<div>
    <span>Rich text *</span>
    <span v-form-ctrl="model.html" name="html" required>
        <tinymce id="inline-editor" :model.sync="model.html"></tinymce>
    </span>
</div>