Hi Jörn, OK, that sounds reasonable. I did some experimenting after I sent the original email and found that the unique naming issue was the real issue, not the form being dynamic: even a simple form such as:
<form> <input id="a1" type="text" name="example" value=""/> <input id="a2" type="text" name="example" value=""/> <input type="submit"/> </form> ...which is perfectly valid HTML, causes the plugin problems. I've already poked around in the code so will see if I can propose a concrete way forward. The obvious solution seems to be to rely on "id" attributes instead, with a fallback to "name" if thats not found. That should resolve the issue and give you some backwards compatibility. Cheers, L. On Jul 15, 6:15 pm, "Jörn Zaefferer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The plugin is architectured around unique names, so there is no > obvious way out. The plugin is already quite tolerant in respect to > dynamic forms, so this is a worthwhile topic. I'd be happy to > collaborate with you on this, where you do the research and we try to > find a solution based on that, together. > > By research I'm referring to an extensive code review, looking for the > various places where element names are used, and how they could be > modified to remove the unique requirement (eg. indexing in the > internal data structures). > > Jörn > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:12 PM, ldodds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I've built a dynamic form that I want to validate using the JQuery > > validate plugin. However I've hit a snag which I think is related to > > how I'm naming form elements. I wondered whether anyone else has had > > the same problem (or might have a solution!) > > > The dynamic aspects of the form are implemented with a little > > microformat and a use of the JQuery clone() method. I have something > > like: > > > <div class="repeated"> > > <input type="text" name="ex:email" value=""/> > > </div> > > > My code picks up on "repeated" form sections and adds some controls to > > enable to the user to add/remove sections to the form. In this case, > > the ability to add multiple email addresses. That bit works fine. > > > What I want to do is just add class="required email" to markup, and > > have each individual email address be validated. > > > However at the moment the JQuery Validate plugin treats all of the > > inputs as the same, i.e. if I click to add a second email address > > field, with the first value being invalid and the second valid, then > > the plugin seems to only ever be validating the original value. > > > I think this is because the plugin is using the field name attributes > > as a key? > > > Yes, the obvious answer is to give all the controls unique names, but > > I'd like to avoid that if possible as the field names are used > > elsewhere and I'd rather avoid having to munge them to add/remove a > > unique suffix (e.g. ex:email-1). > > > Any ideas? > > > Cheers, > > > L. > > -- > >http://www.ldodds.com/blog
