Stefan,

The simplified requirements would be a Form with a single Field. The Form would have a valid initial value for that Field, such that the user shouldn't have to edit anything but should be able to hit Submit.

Here's my sample code from earlier: https://stackblitz.com/edit/react-wf5veh-reyjj3?file=app/main.jsx

In the above sample, you can see the Form is not able to submit until you edit the Field.

Thanks

Thank you for the feedback Stefan.

I think currently the default values of a Form are confusing. If you use default values, and those values do not need to be modified, then the Form appears broken to the user - they can't submit. We use the Form component all over our application and are now finding that when the default values are used that the Forms all feel broken to the user. The user can modify the value and then undo their modification to allow the Form to submit, but that is not desired.

I'm aware that I can use the Form submit button clicked event handler to bypass the Form's internal check on whether or not it can submit. The issue with doing that is that it also bypasses the Form's validation of the inputs, which we use.

I could also change all of our Forms to no longer use the Form component, and instead just use Inputs, etc. That is not ideal because we use the Form validation quite a bit. It'd also be a big code change to remove usage of Form.

It's my feeling that the default values feature of the Form component is not working correctly. I think the Form component needs to perform it's internal check on whether or not it can submit in such a way that it includes default values. The default values should basically trigger the same internal adjustments that typing a value into the field triggers. Currently it doesn't seem like you can use default values because it might cause a Form to appear unsubmitable / broken.

Do you have any suggestions on the best approach for me? Is there a way I can trigger the Form's validation from within the Form button click event handler? That would be the least code changes for me if so.

Thank you,

Ryan