Thanks for responding so quickly.
Unfortunately, my form just isn't working like yours. I don't see
what I've done wrong. Maybe you can see something?
Here is the code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://
www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/jquery/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></
script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/jquery/jquery.validate.js"></
script>
<form name="brief" id="briefform" enctype="multipart/form-data"
action="/amstest/edit.php" method="POST">
<select name=ROLE_1 id=ROLE_1 validate="required:true, minlength:1"
multiple="multiple" title="Please specify at least one person"
size="5">
<option value=''>Select a person
<option value="1">First Person
<option value="2">Second Person
<option value="3">Third Person
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Validate Selecttests"/>
</form>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
$.validator.addClassRules({
multirequired: {
required: true,
minlength: 1
}
});
$.validator.addMethod("allOrNothing", function(value, element) {
var i, sply, prod, prog, amt, allthere;
allthere = new Array();
for (i=0; document.getElementById('SPLY_'+i)!=null; i++)
{
allthere[i] = -1;
sply = document.getElementById('SPLY_'+i).value;
prod = document.getElementById('prod_'+i).value;
prog = document.getElementById('prog_'+i).value;
amt = document.getElementById('amt_'+i).value;
if (sply>0 || prod>0 || prog>0 || amt.length>0)
allthere[i] = (sply>0 && prod>0 && prog>0 &&
amt.length>0);
}
return (element.id=='amt0'?element.length>0:element.value>0) ||
allthere[0];
}, "<br>Data Missing");
$.validator.addClassRules({
allOrNothing: { allOrNothing: true }
});
form = $("#briefform")
form.validate({
debug: true,
success: "valid",
submitHandler: function() { alert("Submitted!") },
errorPlacement: function(error, element) {
tid = element.attr("id");
for (i=0; document.getElementById('SPLY_'+i)!=null; i++)
if (tid == "SPLY_"+i || tid == "prod_"+i || tid
== "prog_"+i ||
tid == "amt_"+i)
error.insertAfter("#DESC_"+i);
else
error.insertAfter(element);
},
errorClass: "errormsg"
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
On Aug 27, 8:09 am, Jörn Zaefferer <joern.zaeffe...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Here are examples with
> multi-selects:http://jquery.bassistance.de/validate/demo/radio-checkbox-select-demo...
>
> Jörn
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Psyclo<m...@datamodel.org> wrote:
>
> > I have a form with a multi-select field that needs to be validated, so
> > at least one option is selected. Is there a setting I'm missing in
> > the validation plug-in?
>
> > Thanks in advance.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
