ERROR Error: No value accessor for form control with unspecified name attribute on switch

Question

I fixed this error by adding the name="fieldName" ngDefaultControl attributes to the element that carries the [(ngModel)] attribute.

I had the same problem and the issue was that my child component had an @input named formControl.

So I just needed to change from:

<my-component [formControl]="formControl"><my-component/>

to:

<my-component [control]="control"><my-component/>

ts:

@Input()
control:FormControl;

I also received this error while writing a custom form control component in Angular 7. However, none of the answers are applicable to Angular 7.

In my case, the following needed to be add to the @Component decorator:

  providers: [
    {
      provide: NG_VALUE_ACCESSOR,
      useExisting: forwardRef(() => MyCustomComponent),  // replace name as appropriate
      multi: true
    }
  ]

This is a case of "I don't know why it works, but it does." Chalk it up to poor design/implementation on the part of Angular.

I also had the same error , angular 7

 <button (click)="Addcity(city.name)" [(ngModel)]="city.name"  class="dropdown-item fontstyle"
     *ngFor="let city of Cities; let i = index">
      {{city.name}}
 </button>

I just added ngDefaultControl

   <button (click)="Addcity(city.name)" [(ngModel)]="city.name"  ngDefaultControl class="dropdown-item fontstyle"
 *ngFor="let city of Cities; let i = index">
  {{city.name}}