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- Here's is a quick checklist of things to consider when using VF:
1) Make sure all form fields are named. Each name should start with a letter.
2) Besides selecting the type of validation you want to perform, also enter an error message that you want displayed. Without an error message VF will skip over that form check.
3) Leave the onsubmit code intact - do not alter it. If you have other JS functions that are being called from the onsubmit event then make sure VF is the first function called, and then any other functions. it should take the form:
<form name="myFormName" method="post" action="someUrl.aspx" onsubmit="VF_myFormName();return false;someOtherfunctionCallHere();anotherFunctionCallHere();andEvenMorefunctionCallsHere();">
- I'm trying to use your form validator and its not working for me. I installed it and used it within Dreamweaver and it seemed to work OK. But when I went to use the web page the errors are not caught and the errors are allowed?"
You must enter an error message into the error message field provided with Validate Form. The error message you enter is used internally by Validate Form to determine whether that field has failed the condition proposed by you.
- When I press the submit button I get this error message "Object doesn't support this property or method?"
Please first of all check to ensure that you have given your form a unique name and the elements contained within that form as well. Referencing errors can occur i.e. Validate Form doesn’t know which object to reference within the HTML document.
Another quirk that I discovered that may cause the above javascript error to occur is when calling the validation routine from the forms submit event. I.e. this piece of code:
onSubmit="VF_<yourformnamehere>(); return false;"
For some reason or another if you have a submit button within your <form> appropriately named "submit", then this statement within the validation code itself may cause the above javascript error to occur:
else theForm.submit();
I am unsure as to why this is, but the simplest workaround I could come up with is just to remove the name of the submit button within the tag or rename it to something else, such as "submitButton".
- Hi. I purchased your extension in hopes that I could make an error message if at least one check box was selected. (At least one of a few choices.) No specific box must be selected, though, just a minimum of one.
Validate Form v2.0 has included with it the single or multiple group checkbox feature. Click here to find out more about it.
- Is there an easy way to define all upper and lower case letters, any number and the hyphen and a space as acceptable characters without having to type them all in? Reason is to validate a user name such as 'John G' or 'John-G'.
Yes! By using Validate Forms inbuilt Regular Expression form check. Please click here to find out more about this form check.
- Can I incorporate it into my template pages?
Yes! Validate Form v2.0 now supports template pages.
Please note: In order for Validate Form to work at all with template based pages, you must have the following editable region tag inside of the <head> section of the .dwt file.
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="head" -->
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
Without it, Validate Form cannot insert the Javascript Form Validation Code, into <head> section of the document.
- Does Validate Form work with dynamically generated <form> elements?
No, unfortunately it doesn't?
Validate Form only works with static HTML <form> elements on a "named" reference basis. That is, it must know the name of an element in order to reference it, hence, in order to validate it. Unfortunately it was designed this way, but perhaps in the future I will look at a solution that will handle dynamically generated <form> elements.
- Can Validate Form display all of the error messages at the same time?
No. Validate Form was designed to display only one error message at a time not all of them. Please be patient though, as I look to include this feature in the next version of Validate Form.
- I have a high resolution laptop. Because of that, i have my dpi turned up to 144 (150% of normal size, set in the advanced display properties of XP). Your form doesn't display properly at that resolution. Can you make the form stretchable by percentage instead of fixed width?
No. Validate Form was designed for a 100% standard dpi setting with fixed widths and heights. For all intense and purposes most if not all <table> and <font> settings where set to relative positioning and dimensioning, however Macromedia's rendering engine does not render elements the way they were define and therefore is not reliable.
- I would like to purchase the extension but my country is not listed with Paypal or they don't accept corporate credit cards. Do you have any other means of payment?
No.
- I am not getting the OK and Cancel Button appear when I run Validate Form from the Insert > Validate Form menu bar?
This is a DWMX 8 bug!
Please run the Extension from the "Common" toolbars menu instead. Look for the icon with the blue "V".
- How do I receive updates?
Updates are e-mailed out to your Paypal e-mail addresss whenever updates are available.
- HTML Form naming issues. This bug was found by Jack Finnegan (www.ntspc.com) Thanks! Jack.
Name your field names within your Form with characters instead of numbers. For example this name "18 to 31 year olds" causes javascript reference errors. A better name might be "eighteenToThirtyOne".
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