ant-design/components/form/index.en-US.md

---
category: Components
type: Form Controls
cols: 1
english: Form
---

Forms are used to collect, validate, and submit the user input. They contain one or more form items.
There are many types of form items including checkbox, radio, input, select, and more.

## Form

You can align the controls of a `form` using one of the following attributes：

- `horizontal`：to horizontally align the `label`s and controls of the fields.
- `inline`：to render the labels and controls of the fields in one line (by setting the display property of form controls to `inline-block`).

## Form fields

A form consists of one or more form fields whose type includes input, textarea, checkbox, radio, select, tag, and more.
A form field is defined using `<Form.Item />`.

```jsx
<Form.Item {...props}>
  {children}
</Form.Item>
```

> PS：By default, large size controls are used within a form.

## API

### Form

**more example [rc-form](http://react-component.github.io/form/)**。

| Property  | Description                              | Type       | Default Value |
|-----------|------------------------------------------|------------|---------|
| form | Decorated by `Form.create()` will be automatically set `this.props.form` property, so just pass to form, you don't need to set it by yourself after 1.7.0. | object | n/a
| vertical | Use vertical layout. | boolean | false |
| horizontal | Use horizontal layout. | boolean  | false    |
| inline | Use inline alignment. | boolean | false |
| onSubmit | Defines a function will be called if form data validation is successful. | Function(e:Event) |  |
| prefixCls | Set the CSS class name of form component (optional). | string | 'ant-form' |

### Form.create(options)

How to use：

```jsx
class CustomizedForm extends React.Component {}

CustomizedForm = Form.create({})(CustomizedForm);
```

The following `options` are available:

| Property      | Description                                     | Type       |
|-----------|------------------------------------------|------------|
| onFieldsChange | Specify a function that will be called when the value a `Form.Item` gets changed. Usage example: saving the field's value to Redux store. | Function(props, fields) |
| mapPropsToFields | Convert props to corresponding field value. Usage example: reading the values from Redux store. | Function(props): Object{ fieldName: Object{ value } } |

If the form has been decorated by `Form.create` then it has `this.props.form` property. `this.props.form` provides some APIs as follows:

| Property      | Description                                     | Type       |
|-----------|------------------------------------------|------------|
| getFieldsValue | Get the specified fields' values. If you don't specify a parameter, you will get all fields' values. | Function([fieldNames: string[]]) |
| getFieldValue | Get the value of a field. | Function(fieldName: string) |
| setFieldsValue | Set the value of a field.(Note: please don't use it in `componentWillReceiveProps`, otherwise, it will cause an endless loop, [more](https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design/issues/2985)) | Function(obj: object) |
| setFields | Set the value and error of a field. | Function(obj: object) |
| validateFields | Validate the specified fields and get theirs values and errors. | Function([fieldNames: string[]], [options: object], callback: Function(errors, values)) |
| validateFieldsAndScroll | This function is similar to `validateFields`, but after validation, if the target field is not in visible area of form, form will be automatically scrolled to the target field area. | same as `validateFields` |
| getFieldError | Get the error of a field. | Function(name) |
| isFieldValidating | Check if the specified field is being validated. | Function(name) |
| resetFields | Reset the specified fields' value and status. If you don't specify a parameter, all the fields will be reset. | Function([names: string[]]) |
| getFieldDecorator | Two-way binding for form, please read below for details. | |

### this.props.form.getFieldDecorator(id, options)

#### Special attention

If you use `react@<15.3.0`, then, you can't use `getFieldDecorator` in stateless component: https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/6534

#### getFieldDecorator's parameters

| Property      | Description                                     | Type | Default Value |
|-----------|-----------------------------------------|-----|--------|
| options.id | The unique identifier is required. | string | |
| options.valuePropName | Props of children node, for example, the prop of Switch is 'checked'. | string | 'value' |
| options.initialValue | You can specify initial value, type, optional value of children node. | | n/a |
| options.trigger | When to collect the value of children node | string | 'onChange' |
| options.getValueFromEvent | To convert parameters of onChange to the value of control, for example, set value of DatePicker: `(date, dateString) => dateString` | function(..args) | [reference](https://github.com/react-component/form#optiongetvaluefromevent) |
| options.validateTrigger | When to validate the value of children node. | string | 'onChange' |
| options.rules | Includes validation rules. Please refer to [async-validator](https://github.com/yiminghe/async-validator) for details. | array | n/a |
| options.exclusive | Whether it is exclusive with other controls, particularly for Radio. | boolean | false |

### Form.Item

> * If Form.Item has multiple children, `help`, `required`, and `validateStatus` can't be generated automatically.
> * Form controls must be child of Form.Item, otherwise, you need to set `help`, `required` and `validateStatus` by yourself.

| Property      | Description                                     | Type       |  Optional | Default Value |
|-----------|------------------------------------------|-----------|-------|--------|
| label | Label text | string  |   |     |
| labelCol | The layout of label. You can set `span` `offset` to something like `{span: 3, offset: 12}` same as with `<Col>` | object |  |  |
| wrapperCol | The layout for input controls. Same as `labelCol` | object |  |  |
| help | The prompt message. If not provided, the prompt message will be generated by the validation rule. | string |  |   |
| extra | The extra prompt message. It is similar to help. Usage example: to display error message and prompt message at the same time. | string |  |   |
| required | Whether provided or not, it will be generated by the validation rule. |  bool |  | false  |
| validateStatus | The validation status. If not provided, it will be generated by validation rule | string | 'success' 'warning' 'error' 'validating'  |   |
| hasFeedback | Used with `validateStatus`, this option specifies the validation status icon. Recommended to be used only with `Input`. | bool |  | false  |
| prefixCls | The CSS class name of form item (optional). | string |  |  'ant-form' |

<style>
.code-box-demo .ant-form-horizontal {
  max-width: 540px;
}
</style>