----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Germuska" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 8:54 PM
> This page http://www.quirksmode.org/index.html?/dom/error.html > demonstrates a more graceful way of alerting users to errors in their > form than an "alert" window. (In case you don't feel like clicking, > it uses Javascript and the DOM to add a message and change the CSS > style of the error fields.) > > Can anyone think of a good way to open up the validator javascript so > that a user could plug in handling like this when desired? Perhaps > we could define a "handleErrors(obj)" method which would receive an > array of error objects, and the default implementation would do the > same thing which currently happens now; then users could simply > redefine the function if they wanted to do something fancier. Thats one of the things I was aiming for in the validator enhancement I was working on. Part of the problem though is in letting the handleErrors() method know where to put a particular fields error message and what css style to set - or if valid reset. > I'm guessing that an error object could just be a tuple with the > actual DOM element representing the input field which has an error > and the message which is currently returned. > > Perhaps someone braver than I would actually want to do something > more elaborate which made it easier for users to simply plug in more > advanced handling by using a config option or something. But even if > not, simply defining a method as an extension point would be nice. > > Speaking of all this, Niall, whatever happened to your proposed > overhaul of validation? That looked really promising. Its "in-progress" - except I haven't given it any time so far this year :-(. I am planning to re-visit it, as it has stuff I want to implement. Niall > Joe > > -- > Joe Germuska > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://blog.germuska.com > "Narrow minds are weapons made for mass destruction" -The Ex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
