validation

Java fields validation mechanism

Hi, Can you recommend any mechanism/technology/3rd party jar that does field validation (like field length validation, regexp validations and so on..)? It's important that it would be highly configurable - meaning that I would be able to map between fields to a set of validations or something of that sort. Perhaps it should have also...

Parent user control validation from child user control

Hi, I have a user control say "A.ascx" which contain two textboxes . Each of the textboxes contain requiredfieldvalidators associated with the controls. They work fine on validation from the same control . Now i have another user control say "B.ascx" which contains a button "Validate" .This user control is contained in the first user...

ASP.NET MVC Conditional validation

How to use data annotations to do a conditional validation on model? For example, lets say we have the following model (Person and Senior): public class Person { [Required(ErrorMessage = "*")] public string Name { get; set; } public bool IsSenior { ...

What is the point of using W3C valid badges?

I'm talking about these. Yeah, I know they are intended to show that the page conforms to the standards and should link to page revalidation service. Ok. But why should I as a regular user bother with this? As a visitor I'm indifferent to whether the page is strict XHTML or not, whether it contains dirty IE hacks or not. It is impor...

Problem in using RequiredFieldValidator for validating FCKEditor

Hi When i use RequiredFieldValidator for Validation FCKEditor , The first time that the form gonna submit , RequiredFieldValidator prompt (ErrorMessage) and indicate that FCKEditor is empty , while it isn't . Again if you try to submit the form , It's OK and there is no problem .At this case user have to hit the submit button twice ...

Automatic LINQ to SQL entities validation

Is there anyway to make LINQ entities validate automatically according to the properties of the datatypes defined in the database? For example, if my property maps to a varchar(40) not null in the database, automatically validate the property to be not null and 40 length? ...

Validating empty or blank value in jquery

Hello I am using jquery validation plugin for form validation. I have added a custom method to validate a date in the custom format. But somehow if users don't type anything in that date textbox, it doesn't give any error. Does anybody know how to check for blank or empty value? EDIT : May be I didn't frame my question correctly. I want...

After form validation, how do you redirect to a new url w/ PHP

I'm very new to back-end web work and I'm trying to create a form for my theatre wherein someone can submit a space inquiry form. I have the form made, it works, but what I want it to do is after they hit 'submit' and the form is validated and emailed to us, they'll be redirected to a "thank you" page. I've tried using the behaviors in...

Do any browsers yet support HTML5's checkValidity() method?

The HTML5 spec defines some very interesting validation components, including pattern (for validating against a Regexp) and required (for marking a field as required). As best I can tell, however, no browser yet actually does any validation based on these attributes. I found a comparison of HTML5 support across engines, but there is no ...

Determining which form input failed validation?

I am designing a creation wizard in ASP.NET MVC 1 and instead of posting back each step, I'm using javascript to toggle the display of the different steps divs. This is a quick sample of the code, just to explain. <% using (Html.BeginForm()) {%> <fieldset> <legend>Fields</legend> <div id="wizardStep1"> <% Html.RenderPartial("Cre...

Validation in ASP.net

I want only letters and the special symbols / and - in my textbox. How should be the expression like to give in custom validator? Thanks In Advance ...

Implementing IDataErrorInfo & databinding

I'm trying to change the IsEnabled property of a button if the validation on some of the textboxes in my form return true. So if there is errors, the IsEnabled property should be set to false. For some reason I cannot get it to work. The IDataErrorInfo implementation is only called after my IsEmailValid property is called, so the Vali...

Where should I put validation code?

I'm creating interfaces and abstract classes that represent a messaging framework for short text-based messages like SMS, email, twitter, xml, etc.. and I was wondering where I should put the message validation code. The thing is that I am only writing the superclasses and interfaces, so I'm not putting the actual implementation in, I'l...

Flex 3 Regular Expression Problem

I've written a url validator for a project I am working on. For my requirements it works great, except when the last part for the url goes longer than 22 characters it breaks. My expression: /((https?):\/\/)([^\s.]+.)+([^\s.]+)(:\d+\/\S+)/i It expects input that looks like "http(s)://hostname:port/location". When I give it the input:...

Unobtrusive jQuery and Rails with AJAX and form validation

Hello, I am looking for a way to call successfully custom function from submitHandler to do proper ajax post. Here is my custom function: jQuery.fn.submitWithAjax = function() { this.submit(function() { $.post(this.action, $(this).serialize(), null, "script"); return false; }) return this; }; Before using validate plugin I had follow...

Validation of interdepent inputs using javascript.

Hi! I have multiple text fields on form and i want two of them should validate like If one of them is empty then say "Both fields are required". Additionally I have also other text fields on form and they are already validating on button click. Can it be handled using Asp.Net CustomValidator ? ...

Multiple datepicker problem with same ID

hi, here is my problem: <input type="text" class="datepick1" id="date" /> <input type="text" class="datepick2" id="date" /> <input type="text" class="datepick3" id="date" /> then i apply datepicker on dom (by classname) $('.datepick1').datepicker(); $('.datepick2').datepicker(); $('.datepick3').datepicker(); => the three dom have d...

time interval in c#

I am having start time and end time as two fields in my database of type Datetime, Now i want that start time and end time selected by user should not fall within the interval of start time and end time that are already present in database. How to do this validation. ...

jQuery MetaData "data" attribute doesn't validate

Using the jquery metadata plugin, I have an element on my page that looks like this: But, if I run this through the W3C Validator - I get an error saying "there is no attribute "data"" ...have I missed anything (I realise data isn't a valid attribute, but this seems to be a 'bug' in the metadata plugin is it? - not one that's going t...

jQuery Validation - Highlighting Radio Labels

I'm trying to use jQuery validation to highlight the labels for my radio buttons only, and not the labels for my other inputs. I have a label for my radio button set called 'type'. I can't seem to get it to work! $(document).ready(function(){ $("#healthForm").validate({ highlight: function(element, errorClass) { $(element)....