Avoid Angular2 to systematically submit form on button click

Question

I see two options to solve it:

1) Specify type="button" explicitly (i think it's more preferable):

<button type="button" (click)="preview();">Preview</button>

According to W3 specification:

• http://w3c.github.io/html-reference/button.html

  A button element with no type attribute specified represents the same thing as a button element with its type attribute set to "submit".

2) Use $event.preventDefault():

<button (click)="preview(); $event.preventDefault()">Preview</button>

or

<button (click)="preview($event);">Preview</button>

preview(e){
  e.preventDefault();
  console.log('preview')
}

This Plunker suggests otherwise, every button seem to work as intended.

However, to prevent default behaviour of the form you can do this,

---

TS:

submit(e){
 e.preventDefault();
}

Template:

<form (submit)="submit($event)" #crisisForm="ngForm">

You have to import FormsModule from '@angular/forms' in your app.module.ts

import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
 @NgModule({
  imports: [
    FormsModule
 ],
 })

I found that with 2.0 release (ngSubmit) is passing a null event value to the method so instead you should us (submit)

<form (submit)="submit($event)" #crisisForm="ngForm">

your .ts file

submit($event){
   /* form code */
   $event.preventDefault();
}

Set type="button" in the button that you don't want to execute submit.