The field is hidden,

so nobody checks it.

CHECKOUT

ship to a different address

STREET · required

empty · errors() is []

valid() true

and the empty street is still in the object you post

Signal Forms skips the validators on hidden and disabled fields, so valid() speaks for the fields the user can act on and for nothing else

Angular 22.2.1 · Signal Forms · state asserted by the demo's test suite

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