Angular+JQ+Bootstrap
HTML
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/assets/css/bootstrap.css">
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.angularjs.org/1.0.0/angular-1.0.0.js"></script>
<div ng-controller="MyCtrl">
<form ng-submit="onSubmitted()">
Header inputs:
<input type="name" ng-model="sample" required/>
<input type="name" ng-model="sampleX" required/>
<input type="submit" value="This submit triggers validation. But I wanted to put this button at the end of the page"/>
</form>
<hr/>
Some other form here. Think line items
<hr />
<a class="btn" ng-click="/* what could should be put here, so this can trigger the firt form's validation, then submit? */">Wanted this submit button to trigger the validation+submit on the form in which this button doesn't belong</a>
</div>
JavaScript
var app = angular.module('myApp', []);
function MyCtrl($scope) {
$scope.onSubmitted = function() {
alert('submitted!');
};
}