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are any errors being thrown? also, what are the values of evt and this.widgetEventPrefix

-- Kevin

So, to answer in order, no errors are being thrown, evt = "submit" and this.widgetEventPrefix = "validator".

I think I might have found the problem: in the initialization part I had this lines:

1. if (this.element[0].checkValidity) {
2.     delete this.element[0].checkValidity;
3.     // this.element[0].checkValidity = $.proxy(this.validateForm, this);
4.     this.element[0].checkValidity = null;
5. }
6. // a function that returns false
7. var retFalse = function() {
8.     return false;
9. }
10. // for each form element, if that element has the "validity" property
11. // binds the retFalse function to the oninvalid event
12. this.element.find("input, select, textarea").each(function() {
13.     if (this.validity) {
14.         this.oninvalid = retFalse;
15.     }
16. });

This was done in order to block the native checkValidity and oninvalid events, but it seems it also completely broke the form submit. Is there a way to at least override the browser's native checkValidity() method?

I've just created a fiddle with the full code at http://jsfiddle.net/EmH37/3/

When clicking the submit button, the default form validation kicks in, and the submit event doesn't seem to trigger, in fact if triggered manually it works.

There is also another problem I just noticed: when fired manually, the validation seems to stop at the first error it founds, but it should instead check all fields and report all errors... Why is it stopping at the very first error? I do not see what in the code could cause it...

EDIT: I found what was causing the second problem, that is, the validation stopping at the first error, and I corrected it. Still, the event not triggering problem persists...

Still struggling to prevent default browser validation. No suggestions at all?

I tried some googling, and I found a suggestion saying that binding a function that return false to the oninvalid input event would stop it, but it doesn't seem to be working...