Angular2 nested template driven form

One simple solution is to provide ControlContainer in viewProviders array of your child component like:

import { ControlContainer, NgForm } from '@angular/forms';

@Component({
 ...,
 viewProviders: [ { provide: ControlContainer, useExisting: NgForm } ]
})
export class ChildComponent {}

Stackblitz Example

Read also this article that explains why it’s working.

• Angular: Nested template driven form

Update

If you’re looking for nested model driven form then here is the similar approach:

@Component({
  selector: 'my-form-child',
  template: `<input formControlName="age">`,
  viewProviders: [
    {
      provide: ControlContainer,
      useExisting: FormGroupDirective
    }
  ]
})
export class ChildComponent {
  constructor(private parent: FormGroupDirective) {}

  ngOnInit() {
    this.parent.form.addControl('age', new FormControl('', Validators.required))
  }
}

Ng-run Example

Update 2

If you don’t know exactly which type of ControlContainer wraps your custom component(for example your controls is inside FormArray directive) then just use common version:

import { SkipSelf } from '@angular/core';
import { ControlContainer} from '@angular/forms';

@Component({
 ...,
 viewProviders: [{
   provide: ControlContainer,
   useFactory: (container: ControlContainer) => container,
   deps: [[new SkipSelf(), ControlContainer]],
 }]
})
export class ChildComponent {}

Ng-run Example