You shouldn't then use the message-callback for this functionality.
Take a look at the highlight-option instead.
Jörn
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Andy Matthews <li...@commadelimited.com> wrote:
> Okay...
>
> Another question. I'm having an odd issue with the message area of the
> plugin, specifically with remote methods. When the remove method fires, as
> in my original post. The problem is that I want to do some additional error
> display when the error fires. Problem is that the message key appears to be
> getting triggered whether there's an error fired or not.
>
> For example, I'm checking to see if a key exists in the database. If it
> does, the message should be displayed, AND the fom field containing the key
> should have it's background color changed. The problem is that the
> background color changes whether the msg is displayed or not. Is this a bug,
> or intended behaviour?
>
> Here's my code to this point.
>
> messages: {
> pagealias: {
> required: 'Page alias is required',
> remote: function(){
> // also highlight the field containing the error
> $field.pulse({
> backgroundColors: ['#fffffff','#ea7f1e']
> }).bind('focus', function(){
> $(this).recover();
> });
> return 'This page alias is already in use';
> }
> }
> }
>
>
> andy
> ________________________________
> From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Jörn Zaefferer
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 5:34 PM
> To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [jQuery] Re: Validation plugin: combine functions with strings on
> remote error
>
> Passing a function as a message happens all the time when using
> $.format("... {0}") as messages. The function is expected to return the
> formated message, so you can just return the string value you want to
> display at the end of your function.
>
> Jörn
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Andy Matthews <amatth...@dealerskins.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm using the validation plugin to validate a field remotely. The
>> validation
>> portion works great, but I've got a question about the error message if
>> the
>> validation fails.
>>
>> I discovered that you can pass a function rather than a plain string as
>> seen
>> below in the remote key. The problem is that when I do this, I lose the
>> ability to display a string of my choosing. Does anyone know how to
>> accomplish both?
>>
>> messages: {
>> pagealias: {
>> required: 'Page alias is required',
>> remote: function(){
>> // highlight the field
>> $field.pulse();
>> // display message
>> 'This page alias is already in use'
>> }
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
>> Andy Matthews
>> Senior Web Developer
>>
>> www.dealerskins.com
>>
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>>
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>>
>
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