A tiny AngularJS directive to set ng-model (and consequently field value) based on form fields attributes.
1- Download plugin (bower install angular-initial-value) or use CDN address and import it after AngularJS:
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.4.7/angular.min.js"></script>
<script src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/angular.initial-value/latest/angular-initial-value.min.js"></script>2- Load the module in your application:
var app = angular.module('myApp', ['initialValue']);3- Add initial-value attribute for your form fields, it supports the most common inputs like text, email, tel, number, color, range, search, date, url, password, checkbox, radio, select, textarea.
<body ng-app="myApp">
<input type="text" value="John" name="text" initial-value ng-model="text" id="text"/>
</body>You can pass the start value to attribute as well (this feature is not available only for checkbox and radio)
<body ng-app="myApp">
<input type="text" name="text" initial-value="John" ng-model="text" id="text"/>
</body>The script will read values from value, checked and selected attributes and load them into its respectives ng-model's.
Check CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.
After starting this project I found this another one which intends deal with the same issue.
This projected is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.