--- "Frank W. Zammetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about rendering the span that you'll place the error message in as > part of what the tag renders? So... > > <html:text property="text1" size="5"/> > > ...renders... > > <input type="text" name="text1" size="5"><span id="text1Message"></span> > > ...then you can simply do as David I think it was suggested in terms of > setting innerHTML (or innerText... I seem to remember innerHTML not > actually being DOM-compliant?)
Right, innerHTML is not part of the W3C standard DOM. However, it works in Firefox and IE and I haven't found another solution that works in both. David > In any case, you would know the ID then > because it is generated based on the form element name. > > As for the CSS issue, you would probably just add a config item for the > validation... actually, probably two, one to alter the offending element > itself and another for the error span. > > -- > Frank W. Zammetti > Founder and Chief Software Architect > Omnytex Technologies > http://www.omnytex.com > > On Tue, April 12, 2005 9:48 pm, Niall Pemberton said: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "David Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 2:08 AM > > > > > >> > >> --- Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > ----- 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. > >> > >> Maybe give handleErrors() the css id of an element that it can set > the > >> innerHTML property on to write the error message? > > > > The question is where to get that id from. The JavaScript validation > is > > generated from whats defined for the form in the validation.xml, with > no > > reference to whats in the jsp/html except for the property name. > Without > > adding additional display attributes there, then I guess the simplest > > option > > is to assume an id based on the property name with a standard > > prefix/suffix. > > > >> David Get Firefox! http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
