jquery-forms-plugin

JQuery Validate Plugin - How to create a simple, custom rule?

How do you create a simple, custom rule using the JQuery Validate plugin (using addMethod) that doesn't use a regex? For example, what function would create a rule that validates only if at lease one of a group of checkboxes is checked? ...

Modifying form values with beforeSubmit with jQuery ajaxSubmit?

I have a form I am submitting using jQuery's ajaxSubmit function from the Forms plugin. I'm trying to add a form name/value pair to the form data just before submission occurs. My plan is to modify the form data in the beforeSubmit event handler. Given a function that looks like: function handleActionFormBeforeSubmit(formData, form, op...

Modifying form data before submission

I'm using jQuery in conjunction with the form plugin and I'd like to intercept the form data before submission and make changes. The form plugin has a property called beforeSubmit that should do this, but I seem to be having trouble getting the function I specify to run. Here's the markup for the form (some style details omitted): <f...

jQuery Form Plugin - How To Change 'target' (for response) Value

This is in reference to jQuery 1.3 and jQuery Form Plug 2.25. Hopefully this is a cakewalk for even an amateur, but I am clueless. var x; $('div#response').fadeOut(300,function() { // do something x = this; } $('#myForm').ajaxForm({ target: x, success: function() { // do something } }); What I'd l...

Why JQuery Form submitHandler does not refresh its callback?

I am using the JQuery Form Plugin, the JQuery validation plugin and the jqTransform plugin. I have a hidden form which I make visible to add or edit stuff. Edit or Add actions trigger the next function call. function activateAddForm(formId,callback) { $('#'+formId).jqTransform().validate({ submitHandler: function(form...

jQuery Forms - Ajax and normal submit the same form

Hello, I have a confirm step in one of my pages. Desired action: user clicks 'submit' and an AJAX request is made that does the appropriate action and returns a confirm dialog user 'confirms' and then the form is submitted using a standard post. So for the first part I'm fine using the jQuery form plugin: $('form').ajaxForm(...opt...

Jquery - Forms Plugin, Dynamic Tabs

Hi guys, I am using JQuery UI tabs. When i create a tab using the "$("#" + target).tabs('add', url, title);" method it opens a tab and calls an ajax form correctly.. Now the problem exists when i open an identical tab containing the identical form. When the form is submitted using the forms plugin, things mess up. I am presuming this...

jQuery Form plugin ajaxSubmit callback timing

Hi, I have the following code bound to the click event of a button: function submitForm() { var $submitOK = false; $('#form1').ajaxSubmit({ beforeSubmit: function() { $submitOK = $('#form1').valid(); return $submitOK; }, success: function(html, status) { $("#response"...

targeting a specific form with serialize()

Following on from my previous question, which was so quickly answered by Meder it wasn't funny, there's now an additional question that's popped up in the process of making a reusable jQuery form submitted that doesn't take the user away from where they were. Problem The jQuery serialize() function is performing its magic on all forms ...

Forms Issue Cross-Domain Posting to MVC Controller using JQuery

I have a very strange issue on my hands. I have two IIS websites using host headers. I have some simple code using JQuery and JQuery.forms to post a simple form to a controller. The controller returns JSON. It works great as long as the client code is present on the web site that has the controller code. The moment I move the form...

Reset form and clear cache after submit

Most browsers cache form values, so when the user navigates to another page and then presses the back button doesn't have to start over again. With the jquery form plugin this also happens after the form has been submitted successfully. The following scenario: user submits form message is shown that submission was successful and for...

JQuery Ajax Form and Dynamically created form elements not submitting

I'm writing a form that has some text input elements loaded dynamically when a select list is changed. The problem is that when I submit the form those elements are not sent in the data that is posted to the server. What do I need to do to get those dynamically created elements "into" the form to be submitted? The code is something li...

jQuery Form Callback Compatibility Issue

I have a form on my website (http://www.jakelazaroff.com/#contact) that I submit with jQuery. The callback function for when the form is successfully submitted is supposed to make the form fade away; however, for some reason this only works on certain browser/OS combinations. Right now, the compatibility list is as follows: WORKS o f...

How to use jQuery Validation plugin with metadata and the jQuery Forms plugin (with some xVal as well)

I've been doing some development using the xVal framework for .NET to link up some of the validation rules for models on the server side along with some client side validation using the jQuery Validation plugin along with the jQuery Form plugin for submitting the form. The scenario is the following: Allow the client to perform basic v...

How to enable Jquery form validation function to be executed/fired before other functions?

I use Jquery form validation to validate form input data. There is a confirm check on submit of this form. . The code is: <script type="text/javascript"> function Confirmation(){ var answer = confirm("Do you really want to withdraw this amount of money from your account?") if (answer){ return true; ...

submitHandler is an invalid label

Below is the code, I get an error which says that submitHandler is an invalid label $(document).ready(function() { $("#withdraw").validate({ rules: { amount: { required: true, number:true, min:0, max:<?php echo $balance; ?> }...

Using respond_to ... format.json and jQuery Form Plugin by malsup

Hello all, I'm having a tad bit of trouble getting the jQuery Form Plugin to work properly with a file-upload field. When I use the plugin to submit the form without a file-upload field, the format.json portion of the respond_to do |format| block is called properly. However, by adding the file-upload field, it only executes the format.h...

Jquery Form ajaxSubmit not submitting

Hi, I am using the JQuery Form extension to submit a form with AJAX. I have the following code: var options = { beforeSubmit: showRequest, // pre-submit callback success: showResponse, // post-submit callback // other available options: //url: url // override for form's 'action' attribute ...

JQuery submit form and output response or error message

I want to submit form and show message about result. update_records initializes alert_message to error message. If success I expect that its value is changed. Than update_records outputs message. But the function always alerts "Error submitting form". What is wrong with this? The code follows: function update_records(form_name) { ...

Using jQuery with form to eliminate spam

I have put a form on a web page where the user can send us data. Unfortunately, the webmaster does get a lot of spam through this form and the valid submissions gets buried. I have used captcha to bypass this problem. But I think that everyone would agree that captcha is a big annoyance to users. I switched to another solution: now the...