If you reponse back with errors in a json format where the key is the label/id you could easily add the errors back in the form layout onSuccess of the ajax post. Though I have not seen a ready made plugin yet that does this for you :) I would not return html though, json is easier.
On Oct 12, 9:30 pm, hairbo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm considering rolling the cool Form.Validator stuff into my generic > form code, and I have two questions, one cheap, and one more in-depth: > > Cheap one: I see the default error behavior I get with > Form.Validator.Inline. It's nice, but I was wondering if there was a > catalog out there somewhere of other ways to handle the error > messages. For example, I'd really like to have the error message > appear inside the <label> tag, but I'm trying to be lazy and not write > my own...<ducks>. > > More in-depth one: So client-side validation is nice, but obviously, > you still need to validate data on the server, and you still need to > be able to return errors from the server back to the client if you hit > errors. So, from that perspective, the only thing that client-side > validation really wins you is less of a server load, and maybe a nicer > experience for the end user. > > The slick thing to do would be to somehow integrate error messages > spit back by the server with error messages from Form.Validator. I'm > not 100% sure what the behavior should be like, but in a general way, > I'd imagine that the server would return <div class="validation- > advice"> tags that somehow Form.Validator would pick up, and then > appropriately display (and then appropriately remove, if/when the user > inputs data in the proper format). I guess my question is...does this > kind of integration exist? How do other folks handle this sort of > thing? > > Thanks.
