Angular ng-submit called twice

Logan Black picture Logan Black · Mar 6, 2014 · Viewed 13.4k times · Source

I have an angular form whose submit method is being hit twice, and I can't figure out why. I'm pretty new to Angular, so it's possible I'm overlooking something fairly simple...

Html:

<div ng-app="RegistrationApp" ng-controller="RegistrationController">
    <form name="accountForm" ng-submit="submitAccount($event, accountForm, account)"  novalidate>

        // inputs here...

        <button type="submit" class="btn btn-success pull-right" ng-disabled="accountForm.$invalid">Submit</button>
    </form>
</div>

Js:

var RegistrationApp = angular.module('RegistrationApp', []);

RegistrationApp.controller('RegistrationController', function ($scope) {

    $scope.submitAccount = function (evt, form, account) {
        console.log('submitAccount() hit'); 
        console.log(evt);
        console.log(form);

        evt.stopPropagation();

        // AJAX code
    });
});

Console Window:

submitAccount() hit 
o.Event {originalEvent: Event, type: "submit", isDefaultPrevented: function, timeStamp: 1394139847226, jQuery210012237170152366161: true…}
c {$error: Object, $name: "accountForm", $dirty: true, $pristine: false, $valid: true…}

submitAccount() hit 
o.Event {originalEvent: Event, type: "submit", isDefaultPrevented: function, timeStamp: 1394139847226, jQuery210012237170152366161: true…}
Constructor {$error: Object, $name: "accountForm", $dirty: true, $pristine: false, $valid: true…}

So, the first thing I tried was to stop propagating the event, but that doesn't have any real effect. After going through the event objects, they're seem identical. The only thing that differs is the 'form' object. The properties are the same, except that one shows that "c" and the other shows "Constructor".

Any ideas what could be causing this to trigger twice? The event target is set to the form element in both cases, and I'm not using any onclick functions, or any other sorts of events in the form.

Answer

sma picture sma · Dec 3, 2014

Another reason for this occurring (which just happened to me):

I had the following:

<form ng-submit="myCtrl.search()">
   <button type="submit">Search</button>
   <button type="submit" class="mobile-only" ng-click="myCtrl.search()">Go</button>
</form>

I had another button inside the form that was bound to the same function as the ng-submit on its ng-click which was causing the method to be called twice.