Could you provide a simple mockup of the interaction you'd like to build? Just some markup and basic CSS and some JavaScript to indicate how the validation should interact with the "wizard" sections.
That would help a lot to understand what you want to achieve and how to make the validation plugin do that. Jörn On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Millman <millma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The issue is that I can see how you did the multipart for required > field validation but we have a lot of custom validation rules setup as > well. Also, we don't like setting the validation up on the class > attribute of an input (grows too large and becomes tedious to manage) > and prefer to setup everything on the .validate() method. It would be > ideal if the .validate() method wasn't tied only to a form and could > be tied to a div as well or setup directly on an element level and > then call selective element validation from an onclick method on a > button. > > On Mar 21, 7:24 am, Jörn Zaefferer <joern.zaeffe...@googlemail.com> > wrote: >> One approach for subformvalidationis demoed >> here:http://jquery.bassistance.de/validate/demo/marketo/step2.htm >> >> Another here, though the demo is currently broken, I need to update >> the accordion plugin:http://jquery.bassistance.de/validate/demo/multipart/ >> >> Jörn >> >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Millman <millma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I have a case where I'm setting up an ASP.NET MVC View that partially >> > renders several Partial View Controls. Each of these controls will be >> > wrapped by a <div></div> element within the Form. This View will be >> > used as a Wizard and we will be utilizing JavaScript to show and hide >> > each various div element as they navigate the wizard. >> >> > My issue is that there can be only 1 form tag which contains all of >> > the Partial View Controls to be displayed. We cannot commit a partial >> > registration to the database only a complete registration so we want >> > to save our submit button for the end of the process and this is why >> > we can have only one form element. Each control within each Partial >> > View has many differentvalidationrules specified like required, >> > email, etc. Now, we only want the current div being displayed to >> > validate not the entire form as we are going to base our decision on >> > whether or not they get to navigate to the next section of the >> > registration process on if all the values entered into the currently >> > displayed inputs are acceptable. >> >> > I've decided the only real way to get thevalidationworking the way >> > I'd like it to is to set the $().validate method on the div level >> > instead of the form level. Is it possible to make thevalidation >> > framework more flexible in the future in this manner or is there a way >> > currently where we can make our application function in this way? >> >> > Thanks in advance!
