**Apologies for the repost; had to correct the subject line. Anyone know why text in square brackets is removed when posting via Google Group's web form?
Hi Jörn, I believe I've discovered a backward compatibility break when upgrading from 1.1.2 to 1.2.1 of the Validate plugin. After a few days of sorting through the problems I've had, I think I've narrowed down issue down to the fact that the current version assumes in several places that the form you're validating is actually an HTML form element. Now, this is a pretty reasonable assumption for most use cases, but is actually different from the previous version. I'm developing an application with some rather large and complex forms. The validate plugin is a critical part of the UI in these forms. There are several places where I use a separate validator instance to validate a subset of a large form on a button click. There are other cases when I use the validator on elements that are not inside a form tag at all. (I can provide more detail about my use cases if needed.) Near as I can tell from reading the code, there are 3 main ways the current version depends on the HTML form tag: 1. To access the validator instance stored in the form (via jquery.data()) 2. As a query context when finding the number of elements in parts of a form (the dependency-related methods do this) 3. As a filter in findByName() You may know of ones I mssed, since you're much more familiar with the code. I'd like to modify the plugin so that it no longer relies on form element such as it does, but I'm a bit unsure about how to make it work without it. #2 and #3 are not too hard to fix, but #1 is a challenge. The trick is to provide a way to access the validator instance without using "element.form", since element.form may be undefined or refer to the wrong object. If you have any suggestions, or alternate strategies, I'd be quite grateful. Also, if solved, would you consider adding the patch back to the main distributed version? The added flexibility should be useful beyond just my case. Regards, Bryce Lohr
