Hi all, I'm considering rolling the cool Form.Validator stuff into my generic form code, and I have two questions, one cheap, and one more in-depth:
Cheap one: I see the default error behavior I get with Form.Validator.Inline. It's nice, but I was wondering if there was a catalog out there somewhere of other ways to handle the error messages. For example, I'd really like to have the error message appear inside the <label> tag, but I'm trying to be lazy and not write my own...<ducks>. More in-depth one: So client-side validation is nice, but obviously, you still need to validate data on the server, and you still need to be able to return errors from the server back to the client if you hit errors. So, from that perspective, the only thing that client-side validation really wins you is less of a server load, and maybe a nicer experience for the end user. The slick thing to do would be to somehow integrate error messages spit back by the server with error messages from Form.Validator. I'm not 100% sure what the behavior should be like, but in a general way, I'd imagine that the server would return <div class="validation- advice"> tags that somehow Form.Validator would pick up, and then appropriately display (and then appropriately remove, if/when the user inputs data in the proper format). I guess my question is...does this kind of integration exist? How do other folks handle this sort of thing? Thanks.
