AngularJs .$setPristine to reset form

$setPristine() was introduced in the 1.1.x branch of angularjs. You need to use that version rather than 1.0.7 in order for it to work.

See http://plnkr.co/edit/815Bml?p=preview

Had a similar problem, where I had to set the form back to pristine, but also to untouched, since $invalid and $error were both used to show error messages. Only using setPristine() was not enough to clear the error messages.

I solved it by using setPristine() and setUntouched(). (See Angular's documentation: https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/type/ngModel.NgModelController)

So, in my controller, I used:

$scope.form.setPristine(); 
$scope.form.setUntouched();

These two functions reset the complete form to $pristine and back to $untouched, so that all error messages were cleared.