I agree the documentation for implementing validation and tabs is very
vague.



On Mar 18, 12:31 pm, phipps_73 <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I guess you would then need to call the validate each time a tab was
> changed. You could catch the select event for a tab:
>
> $('.selector').tabs({
>    select: function(event, ui) { ... } //run validation here?
>
> });
>
> and then run the validation, if it validates let the select continue
> or show error messages. If the user needs to click a button to go to
> the next tab then you could add a function to the click handler to
> handle the validation and call:
>
> .tabs( 'select' , index )
>
> if the form validates.
>
> All a bit vague. I was just looking through the docs here:
>
> http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Tabs
>
> the validate function basically returns true or false so you should be
> able to get something working.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Dave
>
> On Mar 18, 3:20 pm, John S <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Clients IT department wants one form with tabbed sections.
>
> > On Mar 18, 8:55 am, phipps_73 <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
>
> > > Are you trying to validate a single form in each tab or are you using
> > > the tabs as a wizard style form?
>
> > > I have an app that uses tabs and has forms in each tab. Each being
> > > validated and submitted using the form plugin. All works very well
> > > together.
>
> > > Dave
>
> > > On Mar 18, 1:14 pm, John S <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > Does anyone know if there's working example of the tabs with the
> > > > validation plugin?
> > > > I've been reading the documentation for both but can't wrap my head
> > > > around how to use them together.
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