This page http://www.quirksmode.org/index.html?/dom/error.html demonstrates a more graceful way of alerting users to errors in their form than an "alert" window. (In case you don't feel like clicking, it uses Javascript and the DOM to add a message and change the CSS style of the error fields.)

Can anyone think of a good way to open up the validator javascript so that a user could plug in handling like this when desired? Perhaps we could define a "handleErrors(obj)" method which would receive an array of error objects, and the default implementation would do the same thing which currently happens now; then users could simply redefine the function if they wanted to do something fancier.

I'm guessing that an error object could just be a tuple with the actual DOM element representing the input field which has an error and the message which is currently returned.

Perhaps someone braver than I would actually want to do something more elaborate which made it easier for users to simply plug in more advanced handling by using a config option or something. But even if not, simply defining a method as an extension point would be nice.

Speaking of all this, Niall, whatever happened to your proposed overhaul of validation? That looked really promising.

Joe

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Joe Germuska
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