George, You can't do the validation server-side as you proposed because the browser only sends HTML form elements. It will not send any information regarding the div tag. You would have to have a hidden form variable and use JavaScript to populate it with any values of interest when the form is submitted.
Regards, Richard -----Original Message----- From: George Steimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 11:51 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Complex Form Validation Nick, Thanks for your response. I'm doing something similar with javascript. What would be better is if we could validate the form serverside with the validation framework... I think we would have to write a custom validator that somehow would get the div parent of the form field and check that before checking the actual field. Thanks, George > > > > > > George, > > I have done something similar to this. I haven't looked at browser > compatability yet(we're currently using this with ie6), but the > concept that I use is that I look at the parents of the form field, > trying to find out if the element is hidden. If I find that a parent > that is hidden, then I take appropriate action. > > My javascript loop looks like this: > > var hiddenParent = false; > for(parent=formField.parentElement; parent != null && hiddenParent == > false; parent = parent.parentElement) { > if(parent.currentStyle.display == none) { > hiddenParent = true; > } > } > > if(hiddenParent) { > etc, etc > } > > Hope this helps a little. If there are better ways to do this, I'd > love to get the feedback :-) Nick > > > > > George Steimer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > m> cc: > Subject: Complex Form Validation > 11/18/2003 02:18 > PM > Please respond to > "Struts Users > Mailing List" > > > > > > > We are trying to perform some complex form validaion with the new > Validator plugin. Here is what we are trying to do: > > 1 -- validate a form field based on other form fields > 2 -- validate a form field based on div style settings > > I know that I could solve the first problem with the old validation > architecture, but is there a way to do that through the validator.xml? > I'm not sure about the second problem. The code looks something like > this > > <div id="myDiv" style="display: none"> > //my form element here > </div> > > So is it possible to only validate the form element above only if the > enclosing div display is block? I've looked, but couldn't find > anything explaining how to go about this. Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance, > > George > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
