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Hello all,

I have a variety of forms on a site. I would like to be able to set different error classes for different forms, as they will need different treatment.

I have a form that I am validating where I set the error classes I want to show up like so:

1. $("#option2").validate({
           errorClass: "error error-qtip"
   });
   

I think the validate plugin removes labels with the errorClass specified in the default (or in defaults you set using jQuery.validator.setDefaults). But it doesn't look like the plugin will remove the error if you set it for that individual form as I did. Anyone come across this and can advise me on what I need to do?

Hello all,

I am attempting to use focusCleanup to try and resolve the flickering error issue when using the remote method. focusCleanup works just fine on my forms that have errors inline with the form fields, but if I use errorContainer:

1. errorLabelContainer: "#memorize-as-errors",
           wrapper: "li"
   

... These errors do not disappear when the user focuses on one of the inputs that has an error associated with it. I don't think this is supposed to be how it works, is this a bug? Or do I need to do something extra for errors placed inside containers?

Thanks!
mang0

Hello all,

I have seen numerous posts about this but can't sift out the current "accepted" solution to this problem.

I am struggling with the validate plugin's remote method. I'm on version 1.6 of the plugin. My problem is with the timing of the remote method. In firefox, when I first type in a name inside a text field that has the remote method it will only validate once I click to submit. This is all fine, except the way I handle if the entries are valid on the form is I use

if $(".something").valid(){ blah blah blah };

... one of the blah's being that I close the modal window that the form lives on. Because of the time the remote method takes, the validator appears to initially, for 200ms, think the form is valid, and will close my modal, but never submit. I considered, instead, setting a variable to "valid" and placing only that inside "blah blah blah" and then testing that variable for valid or invalid before closing the modal, but that feels quite hacky.

Similarly, IE6 struggles with the remote method. while I can see firefox aborting tons and tons of the remote requests and not doing any of the error display stuff, IE doesn't really "abort" and go by the latest request. IE just keeps flickering the error message on and off and on and off as I type, presumeably because it just can't keep up. On occasion, the error message sticks, even if the entry is valid.

Can someone recommend a way for me to make remote a bit more agreeable? Can I restrict remote to only work on submit, regardless if a previous entry had been incorrect? Anyone else have any advice for dealing with the time it takes for the remote to validate? Thanks!!

So there is a decent number of this same question on this forum, but either without solutions or with solutions that I'm just not sure if its that great... I would love if someone could help me out with this and hopefully we can get this thread to be a good reference point for all those others.

I have a small, two input form that is being loaded when the user clicks on a link. This form is loaded via ajax. It does not initially exist, only a div exists in its place, ready to have the form loaded there.

The inputs have classes to them "title" and "description". In my validation js file, these classes are defined as part of the addClassRules bit. I also have some default messages set ( $.extend($.validator.messages). Both the validation rules and the default messages I have set are working.

But when I try to add specific validation rules/messages for just this form I load...

1. $("#ajaxloadedform").validate({ blah blah blah })

.... nothing inside this validate works. But if I wanted to test...

1. $("#ajaxloadedform").valid()

... this does work. I'm assuming, as many others before me have, that its the ajax load issue. But it puzzles me why some parts of it work while other parts do not.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer!