I have a number of fields that are either filled (inputs) or selected (dropdowns) that working together to create a new page.
I'm attempting to validate the entries and prevent the page creation if anything is wrong with the inputs. No form is being used.
The problem is the $("#netsubmit").submit(function( event )) never gets run when the submit is clicked. No errors are thrown, no indication why its not processing.
My html for the input is:
<input id="netsubmit" type="submit" value="Submit" onClick="newNet()"
title="Submit The New Net">
My JQuery javascript is:
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#netsubmit").submit(function( event ) {
alert("in it");
var callentered = $("#callsign").val();
if (callentered == "") {
event.preventDefault();
alert("Please enter a call sign first.");
$("#callsign").focus();
}
});
});
It is likely not working because as you said you aren't using a form element. From the jquery docs:
The submit event is sent to an element when the user is attempting to submit a form. It can only be attached to form elements
You could use the function specified by your onclick event onClick="newNet()" to validate the data.
.submit() can only be used with <form> elements, as stated in the documentation:
It can only be attached to <form>elements.
If you do not want to use the form tag, you can switch to using .click() instead, like so:
$("#netsubmit").click(function(event) {
alert("in it");
});
If you read the documentation for submit on MDN it explicitly says
The submit event is fired when a form is submitted.
Note that submit is fired only on the form element, not the button or
submit input. (Forms are submitted, not buttons.)
if you do
<form id="myform">
<input id="netsubmit" type="submit" value="Submit" onClick="newNet()" title="Submit The New Net">
</form>
and then change the code
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#myform").submit(function( event ) {
alert("in it");
var callentered = $("#callsign").val();
if (callentered == "") {
event.preventDefault();
alert("Please enter a call sign first.");
$("#callsign").focus();
}
});
});
it works fine
I have this form in my app and I will submit it via AJAX, but I want to use HTML for client-side validation. So I want to be able to force the form validation, perhaps via jQuery.
I want to trigger the validation without submitting the form. Is it possible?
To check whether a certain field is valid, use:
$('#myField')[0].checkValidity(); // returns true|false
To check if the form is valid, use:
$('#myForm')[0].checkValidity(); // returns true|false
Show html5 built-in error
if (! $('#myForm')[0].checkValidity()) {
$('#myForm')[0].reportValidity()
}
Keep in mind that, HTML5 validation is not supported in all browsers till now.
below code works for me,
$("#btn").click(function () {
if ($("#frm")[0].checkValidity())
alert('sucess');
else
//Validate Form
$("#frm")[0].reportValidity()
});
I found this solution to work for me.
Just call a javascript function like this:
action="javascript:myFunction();"
Then you have the html5 validation... really simple :-)
if $("form")[0].checkValidity()
$.ajax(
url: "url"
type: "post"
data: {
}
dataType: "json"
success: (data) ->
)
else
#important
$("form")[0].reportValidity()
from: html5 form validation
Here is a more general way that is a bit cleaner:
Create your form like this (can be a dummy form that does nothing):
<form class="validateDontSubmit">
...
Bind all forms that you dont really want to submit:
$(document).on('submit','.validateDontSubmit',function (e) {
//prevent the form from doing a submit
e.preventDefault();
return false;
})
Now lets say you have an <a> (within the <form>) that on click you want to validate the form:
$('#myLink').click(function(e){
//Leverage the HTML5 validation w/ ajax. Have to submit to get em. Wont actually submit cuz form
//has .validateDontSubmit class
var $theForm = $(this).closest('form');
//Some browsers don't implement checkValidity
if (( typeof($theForm[0].checkValidity) == "function" ) && !$theForm[0].checkValidity()) {
return;
}
//if you've gotten here - play on playa'
});
Few notes here:
I have noticed that you don't have to actually submit the form for validation to occur - the call to checkValidity() is enough (at least in chrome). If others could add comments with testing this theory on other browsers I'll update this answer.
The thing that triggers the validation does not have to be within the <form>. This was just a clean and flexible way to have a general purpose solution..
2022 vanilla JS solution
Pure JavaScript has all the functions you need for this. I know the question was about jQuery, but even the answers with jQuery use these functions, which are checkValidity() and reportValidity().
Test entire form
let form = document.getElementById('formId');
// Eventlistener can be another event and on another DOM object this is just an example
form.addEventListener('submit', function (event) {
// Only needed if event is submit, otherwise this line can be skipped
event.preventDefault();
// This is the important part, test if form is valid
if (form.checkValidity() === false){
// This is the magic function that displays the validation errors to the user
form.reportValidity();
return;
}
// Code if all fields are valid; continue form submit or make Ajax call.
})
Test specific field
checkValidity() and reportValidity() can not only be used on the form, but also on specific fields. No need to create a form or a dummy submit button if not needed.
// Get field of interest
let inputElement = document.querySelector("[name='" + inputName + "']");
// Check if the element is valid
if (inputElement.checkValidity() === false){
// If not, show the errors to the user
inputElement.reportValidity();
return;
}
// Nothing? Great, continue to the Ajax call or whatever
This has to be in a function called by an event listener to make sense, obviously.
May be late to the party but yet somehow I found this question while trying to solve similar problem. As no code from this page worked for me, meanwhile I came up with solution that works as specified.
Problem is when your <form> DOM contain single <button> element, once fired, that <button> will automatically sumbit form. If you play with AJAX, You probably need to prevent default action. But there is a catch: If you just do so, You will also prevent basic HTML5 validation. Therefore, it is good call to prevent defaults on that button only if the form is valid. Otherwise, HTML5 validation will protect You from submitting. jQuery checkValidity() will help with this:
jQuery:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#buttonID').on('click', function(event) {
var isvalidate = $("#formID")[0].checkValidity();
if (isvalidate) {
event.preventDefault();
// HERE YOU CAN PUT YOUR AJAX CALL
}
});
});
Code described above will allow You to use basic HTML5 validation (with type and pattern matching) WITHOUT submitting form.
You speak of two different things "HTML5 validation" and validation of HTML form using javascript/jquery.
HTML5 "has" built-in options for validating a form. Such as using "required" attribute on a field, which could (based on browser implementation) fail form submission without using javascript/jquery.
With javascrip/jquery you can do something like this
$('your_form_id').bind('submit', function() {
// validate your form here
return (valid) ? true : false;
});
var $myForm = $('#myForm ');
if (!$myForm[0].checkValidity()) {
$('<input type="submit">').hide().appendTo($myForm).click().remove();
}
To check all the required fields of form without using submit button you can use below function.
You have to assign required attribute to the controls.
$("#btnSave").click(function () {
$(":input[required]").each(function () {
var myForm = $('#form1');
if (!$myForm[0].checkValidity())
{
$(myForm).submit();
}
});
});
You don't need jQuery to achieve this. In your form add:
onsubmit="return buttonSubmit(this)
or in JavaScript:
myform.setAttribute("onsubmit", "return buttonSubmit(this)");
In your buttonSubmit function (or whatver you call it), you can submit the form using AJAX. buttonSubmit will only get called if your form is validated in HTML5.
In case this helps anyone, here is my buttonSubmit function:
function buttonSubmit(e)
{
var ajax;
var formData = new FormData();
for (i = 0; i < e.elements.length; i++)
{
if (e.elements[i].type == "submit")
{
if (submitvalue == e.elements[i].value)
{
submit = e.elements[i];
submit.disabled = true;
}
}
else if (e.elements[i].type == "radio")
{
if (e.elements[i].checked)
formData.append(e.elements[i].name, e.elements[i].value);
}
else
formData.append(e.elements[i].name, e.elements[i].value);
}
formData.append("javascript", "javascript");
var action = e.action;
status = action.split('/').reverse()[0] + "-status";
ajax = new XMLHttpRequest();
ajax.addEventListener("load", manageLoad, false);
ajax.addEventListener("error", manageError, false);
ajax.open("POST", action);
ajax.send(formData);
return false;
}
Some of my forms contain multiple submit buttons, hence this line if (submitvalue == e.elements[i].value). I set the value of submitvalue using a click event.
This way works well for me:
Add onSubmit attribute in your form, don't forget to include return in the value.
<form id='frm-contact' method='POST' action='' onSubmit="return contact()">
Define the function.
function contact(params) {
$.ajax({
url: 'sendmail.php',
type: "POST",
dataType: "json",
timeout: 5000,
data: { params:params },
success: function (data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
// callback
},
error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
console.log(jqXHR.responseText);
}
});
return false;
}
I had a rather complex situation, where I needed multiple submit buttons to process different things. For example, Save and Delete.
The basis was that it was also unobtrusive, so I couldn't just make it a normal button. But also wanted to utilize html5 validation.
As well the submit event was overridden in case the user pressed enter to trigger the expected default submission; in this example save.
Here is the efforts of the processing of the form to still work with/without javascript and with html5 validation, with both submit and click events.
jsFiddle Demo - HTML5 validation with submit and click overrides
xHTML
<form>
<input type="text" required="required" value="" placeholder="test" />
<button type="submit" name="save">Save</button>
<button type="submit" name="delete">Delete</button>
</form>
JavaScript
//wrap our script in an annonymous function so that it can not be affected by other scripts and does not interact with other scripts
//ensures jQuery is the only thing declared as $
(function($){
var isValid = null;
var form = $('form');
var submitButton = form.find('button[type="submit"]')
var saveButton = submitButton.filter('[name="save"]');
var deleteButton = submitButton.filter('[name="delete"]');
//submit form behavior
var submitForm = function(e){
console.log('form submit');
//prevent form from submitting valid or invalid
e.preventDefault();
//user clicked and the form was not valid
if(isValid === false){
isValid = null;
return false;
}
//user pressed enter, process as if they clicked save instead
saveButton.trigger('click');
};
//override submit button behavior
var submitClick = function(e){
//Test form validitiy (HTML5) and store it in a global variable so both functions can use it
isValid = form[0].checkValidity();
if(false === isValid){
//allow the browser's default submit event behavior
return true;
}
//prevent default behavior
e.preventDefault();
//additional processing - $.ajax() etc
//.........
alert('Success');
};
//override submit form event
form.submit(submitForm);
//override submit button click event
submitButton.click(submitClick);
})(jQuery);
The caveat to using Javascript is that the browser's default onclick must propagate to the submit event MUST occur in order to display the error messages without supporting each browser in your code.
Otherwise if the click event is overridden with event.preventDefault() or return false it will never propagate to the browser's submit event.
The thing to point out is that in some browsers will not trigger the form submit when the user presses enter, instead it will trigger the first submit button in the form. Hence there is a console.log('form submit') to show that it does not trigger.
You can do it without submitting the form.
For example, if the form submit button with id "search" is in the other form . You can call click event on that submit button and call ev.preventDefault after that.
For my case I validate form B from Form A submission.
Like this
function validateFormB(ev){ // DOM Event object
//search is in Form A
$("#search").click();
ev.preventDefault();
//Form B validation from here on
}
$(document).on("submit", false);
submitButton.click(function(e) {
if (form.checkValidity()) {
form.submit();
}
});
$("#form").submit(function() { $("#saveButton").attr("disabled", true); });
not a best answer but works for me.
I know this has already been answered, but I have another possible solution.
If using jquery, you can do this.
First create a couple of extensions on jquery so you can resuse these as needed.
$.extend({
bypassDefaultSubmit: function (formName, newSubmitMethod) {
$('#'+formName).submit(function (event) {
newSubmitMethod();
event.preventDefault();
}
}
});
Next do something like this where you want to use it.
<script type="text/javascript">
/*if you want to validate the form on a submit call,
and you never want the form to be submitted via
a normal submit operation, or maybe you want handle it.
*/
$(function () {
$.bypassDefaultSubmit('form1', submit);
});
function submit(){
//do something, or nothing if you just want the validation
}
</script>
This worked form me to display the native HTML 5 error messages with form validation.
<button id="btnRegister" class="btn btn-success btn btn-lg" type="submit"> Register </button>
$('#RegForm').on('submit', function ()
{
if (this.checkValidity() == false)
{
// if form is not valid show native error messages
return false;
}
else
{
// if form is valid , show please wait message and disable the button
$("#btnRegister").html("<i class='fa fa-spinner fa-spin'></i> Please Wait...");
$(this).find(':submit').attr('disabled', 'disabled');
}
});
Note: RegForm is the form id.
Reference
Hope helps someone.
This is a pretty straight forward way of having HTML5 perform validation for any form, while still having modern JS control over the form. The only caveat is the submit button must be inside the <form>.
html
<form id="newUserForm" name="create">
Email<input type="email" name="username" id="username" size="25" required>
Phone<input type="tel" id="phone" name="phone" pattern="(?:\(\d{3}\)|\d{3})[- ]?\d{3}[- ]?\d{4}" size="12" maxlength="12" required>
<input id="submit" type="submit" value="Create Account" >
</form>
js
// bind in ready() function
jQuery( "#submit" ).click( newAcctSubmit );
function newAcctSubmit()
{
var myForm = jQuery( "#newUserForm" );
// html 5 is doing the form validation for us,
// so no need here (but backend will need to still for security)
if ( ! myForm[0].checkValidity() )
{
// bonk! failed to validate, so return true which lets the
// browser show native validation messages to the user
return true;
}
// post form with jQuery or whatever you want to do with a valid form!
var formVars = myForm.serialize();
etc...
}
I think the best approach
will be using jQuery Validation plugin which uses best practice for form validation and it also has good browser support. So you don't need to worry about browser compatibility issues.
And we can use jQuery validation valid() function which checks whether the selected form is valid or whether all selected elements are valid without submitting the form.
<form id="myform">
<input type="text" name="name" required>
<br>
<button type="button">Validate!</button>
</form>
<script>
var form = $( "#myform" );
form.validate();
$( "button" ).click(function() {
console.log( "Valid: " + form.valid() );
});
</script>
According to the question html5 validity should be validate able using jQuery at first and in most of the answer this is not happening and the reason for this is as following:
while validating using html5 form's default function
checkValidity();// returns true/false
we need to understand that jQuery returns object array, while selecting like this
$("#myForm")
therefore, you need to specify the first index to make checkValidity() function work
$('#myForm')[0].checkValidity()
here is the complete solution:
<button type="button" name="button" onclick="saveData()">Save</button>
function saveData()
{
if($('#myForm')[0].checkValidity()){
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "save.php",
data: data,
success: function(resp){console.log("Response: "+resp);}
});
}
}
im working on a project using mvc asp.net and what i try to do now is to submit a form using javascript.
the javascript works and submit my form.
My problem is that i have a value in my button tag which i want get in my controller but its only null.
the controller is correct because if i do a normal submit without javascript i get the value i want from
my <button>
using javascript i only receive null.
someone can give me a hand with this pls??
thanks in advance
Here is my code:
$(function () {
$('form').find('button[type=submit]').click(function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
$form = $(this).closest('form');
if (this.name == 'yes') {
doConfirm("Confirm that you want to validate?", function yes() {
$form.submit();
});
} else {
doReject("Confirm that you want reject?", function no() {
// do nothing
});
}
});
});
Programmatically submitted forms don't include a parameter corresponding to a submit button, which makes sense considering they weren't directly triggered by clicking a button. The easiest way would be to add the corresponding parameter to the action property of the form prior to submitting it. Something like this should work:
var button = this;
...
doConfirm("Confirm that you want to validate?", function yes() {
$form[0].action += ($form[0].action.indexOf('?') != -1 '&' : '?') + button.name + '=' + button.value;
$form.submit();
}
Alternatively you could turn the entire thing into an AJAX submit, and include the corresponding parameter along with the other form data.
I've got a form that is loaded dynamically, with a textarea that I must check for spam before submitting. So I wrote something like this:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('form').live('submit',function(){
if ( $('form textarea').val().match(/https?:\/\/|www\.|\.com/) ) {
return false;
}
return true;
})
});
And it works fine, the first time. However, if I click on the submit button again, the form is submitted without going through the validation. There are some related questions in SO already, but I've tried their answers and can't seem to make it work. I tried for example attaching the listener to the document rather than the form, and using the on method rather than live, but with no luck yet. Any help is appreciated!
The form in $('form textarea') may not be the same form that triggered the submit event, to use the form that triggered the event use this
$('form').live('submit',function(){
if ( $('textarea', this).val().match(/https?:\/\/|www\.|\.com/) ) {
return false;
}
return true;
})
I'm using forms basic validation to check if email is correct format, then the data is sent by Ajax where it checks if email address is already in use and did the user select country/state or left default values in select boxes.
But for HTML5 form validation to be done submit event is needed, upon clicking submit if it passes that basic form validation Ajax operation is performed, but then when results come in I would like to use the same browser tooltips for interface consistency (and well I like how they look).
So is there a way to make them show up, I was unable to find if there is some special event for them or something like firing submit event but stopping it right away. Right now the field only gets a red edge and error message appears on hovering mouse over it, while the tooltip shows on again clicking submit button.
Also for browsers that don't have native tooltips(in my case Safari) I'm using Webshims Lib and it acts exactly the same as in Chrome and Firefox.
I thought .checkValidity() would do the trick, but it doesn't trigger the UI. (caniuse)
It sounds like .reportValidity() does what you want. (caniuse)
You can find an answer at this link: How to force a html5 form validation without submitting it via jQuery
Basically, you find a submit button and call click on it:
// force form validation
document.getElementById("submitbutton").click()
You can also change validation message after checking if email address is in use or not and then force form validation as above:
document.getElementById("email").setCustomValidity("This email is already registered!");
document.getElementById("submitbutton").click()
A polyfill for HTMLFormElement.reportValidity().
Tested with IE11 and Edge. But when running in the StackOverflow sandbox below with IE11, the validation messages are not displayed.
function reportValidityPolyfill() {
const button = createInvisibleSubmitButton();
this.appendChild(button);
this.addEventListener("submit", submitEventHandler);
var isValid = false;
button.click();
this.removeEventListener("submit", submitEventHandler);
this.removeChild(button);
return isValid;
function createInvisibleSubmitButton() {
const button = document.createElement("button");
button.type = "submit";
button.style.display = "none";
return button;
}
function submitEventHandler(event) {
event.preventDefault();
isValid = true;
}
}
if (!HTMLFormElement.prototype.reportValidity) {
HTMLFormElement.prototype.reportValidity = reportValidityPolyfill;
console.log("ReportValidity polyfill installed.");
} else {
console.log("ReportValidity polyfill skipped.");
}
input {
outline: 1px solid #0f0;
}
input:invalid {
outline: 1px solid #f00;
}
<form id="form1">
Enter a number from 1 to 5: <input type="number" min="1" max="5" required>
</form>
<br>
<div onclick="console.log('Validity: ' + document.getElementById('form1').reportValidity())">
Click here to call reportValidity()
</div>
It's actually very simple - add a hidden input element to your form:
<input type="hidden" id="myFormCheck" required="true" value=""/>
Call myInputField.setCustomValidity(message) on the input element you want to create a custom tooltip on then call your form.click();
The form validity process runs and displays the message popup over that element, but the form won't submit because of the hidden element, so you won't need to catch and cancel the submit event.
When you're done and really ready to go, set a value on the hidden element and the form will submit normally.
This way you can use the form tooltip for something like checking for usernames that are available, or matching any value over an HTTP Request etc.
As most people say you have to use input.setCustomValidity("message").
The problem here is that you can't check that validation within the submit event, since you need to do an ajax call and then set setCustomValidity asynchronously.
So basically you have to use the change event of the input field and make the ajax call on every change. Or remove the submit button and use the click event of a normal button, check the unique email in the ajax call and then call submit through javascript.
See an example of the last option using jQuery:
<form action="/sign-in" id="form">
<input type="email" id="email" required/>
<button id="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
// we capture the click instead the submit
$("#submit").on("click",function(){
var $elem = $("#email");
var email = $elem.val();
//the ajax call returns true if the email exists
$.get( "ajax/checkUniqueEmail", function(data) {
if(data === "true"){
$elem.setCustomValidity("This email already exists.");
}else{
$elem.setCustomValidity("")
}
//then we submit the form
$("#form").submit();
});
});
Checkout this link ( Provide custom validation messages using setCustomValidity in HTML 5 pages ).
In the above link, he used "input" type is number and oninput he called the validation function. Let me know is this what you are looking for.
<input type="number" required="true" value="50" min="18" max="60" step="1" oninput="validate(this)">
Here's a nice live example that custom validates/gives feedback on a form input.
The basic javascript looks like:
function checkPasscode() {
var passcode_input = document.querySelector("#passcode");
if (passcode_input.value != "Ivy") {
passcode_input.setCustomValidity("Wrong. It's 'Ivy'.");
} else {
passcode_input.setCustomValidity(""); // be sure to leave this empty!
alert("Correct!");
}
}
HTML:
<form>
<label for="passcode">Enter Passcode:</label>
<input id="passcode"
type="password"
placeholder="Your passcode"
oninput="checkPasscode();"
required/>
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
You can use setCustomValidity with for the element if the condition is false ( you can do it inside any event handler such as keypress or click ). If the input is NOT valid, SUBMIT. This will trigger the browser's message tooltip.
setCustomValidity() does the trick on my change password from, confirm password input.
But the problem is when we set setCustomValidity('Passwords do not match) it doesn't clear as attached to the form submit event.
I just added setCustomValidity('') to blank in password confirmation input key up event.
It works for me.
$(document).ready(function() {
const confirm = document.querySelector('input[name=password2]');
$('#pass2').on('keyup', function(){
confirm.setCustomValidity('');
})
$("#reset-pw-form").on('submit', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
if($('#pass1').val() != $('#pass2').val()) {
confirm.setCustomValidity('Passwords do not match');
confirm.reportValidity();
return false;
}
}
As you already have divs to display feedback, you can manually manipulate these.
$('#cc').on('input', function () {
var input = document.getElementById("cc");
var validity = document.getElementById("validity");
validity.style.display = "block";
if (checkLuhn(input.value)) {
validity.innerHTML = "Valid Credit Card Number";
} else {
validity.innerHTML = "Invalid Credit Card Number";
}
});
You should also check the length of the credit card number is either 13 or 16 all numeric digits.