How about rendering the span that you'll place the error message in as part of what the tag renders? So...
<html:text property="text1" size="5"/> ...renders... <input type="text" name="text1" size="5"><span id="text1Message"></span> ...then you can simply do as David I think it was suggested in terms of setting innerHTML (or innerText... I seem to remember innerHTML not actually being DOM-compliant?) In any case, you would know the ID then because it is generated based on the form element name. As for the CSS issue, you would probably just add a config item for the validation... actually, probably two, one to alter the offending element itself and another for the error span. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Tue, April 12, 2005 9:48 pm, Niall Pemberton said: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 2:08 AM > > >> >> --- Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Joe Germuska" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 8:54 PM >> > >> > >> > > 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. >> > >> > Thats one of the things I was aiming for in the validator enhancement >> I >> > was >> > working on. Part of the problem though is in letting the >> handleErrors() >> > method know where to put a particular fields error message and what >> css >> > style to set - or if valid reset. >> >> Maybe give handleErrors() the css id of an element that it can set the >> innerHTML property on to write the error message? > > The question is where to get that id from. The JavaScript validation is > generated from whats defined for the form in the validation.xml, with no > reference to whats in the jsp/html except for the property name. Without > adding additional display attributes there, then I guess the simplest > option > is to assume an id based on the property name with a standard > prefix/suffix. > >> David > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
