Hi, (should've posted this message on 'commons' to get more answers, ah well, hope there is enough talents in this pool to grind my petty problem into the dust).
As the title suggested, somehow my validator is trying to validate the 'minlength' of every single field no matter whether I set depends="required" or not. It seems that all the empty fields are submited by the browser. Based on what's stated in validator documentation: since browser will not submit empty fields, any field that isn't required will skip all validations if the fields is null or has a length of zero. But my browser is doing the exact opposite. Here is my form: <form name="ManageForm" method="post" action="/Manage.do;jsessionid=26CB107EF9925FB8EEDD4F1223FD89D9" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <input type="text" name="hInput" value=""> <input type="submit" value="submit" > </form> -- in validation.xml -- <formset> <!-- Forms --> <form name="ManageTranslateForm"> <field property="hInput" depends="minlength"> <arg0 key="hInput.displayname"/> <arg1 name="minlength" key="${var:minlength}" resource="false"/> <var> <var-name>minlength</var-name> <var-value>6</var-value> </var> </field> </form> </formset> -- in validator-rules.xml -- <validator name="minlength" classname="org.apache.struts.validator.FieldChecks" method="validateMinLength" methodParams="java.lang.Object, org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorAction, org.apache.commons.validator.Field, org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest" depends="" msg="errors.minlength"> I don't know how required() could be invoked when it's not set on this particular field. Also if browser do sumbit empty fields, then something is wrong with the 'required' validator. But the fact that I have used the validator successfully before contradicts that conclusion. But it's kind of vague in w3 recommendation on whether or not the browser should support this behaviour: If a control doesn't have a current value when the form is submitted, user agents are not required to treat it as a successful control. Any idea greatly appreciated! -Yan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]