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more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags how to display error message in javascript without alert Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 6.2 million programmers, just like you, display error message beside textbox in javascript helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up How to display error onblur when a field is empty using jQuery Validate? up vote 2 down vote favorite 2 I'm using jQuery Validate to

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validate a form. The onfocusout parameter is set to true, however it says this: Validate elements (except checkboxes/radio buttons) on blur. If nothing is entered, all rules are skipped, except when the field was already marked as invalid. I cannot find anyway to make it so if the user clicks inside the field and doesn't enter anything then the error message will be displayed and the field would be highlighted in red. The only way it

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will display the error if the field is empty is if I enter text, then delete it. I need it to show the error if I click inside it then click out without entering anything at all. Can someone tell me how to do this? jquery jquery-plugins jquery-validate share|improve this question asked Apr 9 '11 at 6:37 Cofey 2,43663752 add a comment| 4 Answers 4 active oldest votes up vote 2 down vote The plugin in question has a function specifically to run validation immediately on one particular element called 'element.' You can use this within the onfocusout function to force validation of that particular element. Example: $('form').validate({ onfocusout: function(e) { this.element(e); } }); See jsfiddle demo. share|improve this answer edited May 23 '14 at 7:40 rAm 8414 answered Jun 11 '12 at 15:54 tigerFinch 1,5961108 add a comment| up vote 1 down vote I came to this post after I encountered the same issue filling out, then clearing a required form field. I was using an example merging twitter bootstrap form mark up with jquery.validate.js found here: http://alittlecode.com/jquery-form-validation-with-styles-from-twitter-bootstrap/ I solved it using the following code: onfocusout: function(label) { if($(label).val() == ''){ $(label).closest('.control-group').removeClass('success'); } } Here's the full script in context: $(document).ready(function() { $('#contact_form').validate({ rules: { name: { minlength: 2, required: true }, email: { required: true, email: true }, message: { minlength: 2, required: tr

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ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community form validation in javascript with error messages examples Stack Overflow is a community of 6.2 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Trying to Trigger Javascript onBlur event for form validation getting http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5603328/how-to-display-error-onblur-when-a-field-is-empty-using-jquery-validate null error up vote 0 down vote favorite I am trying to write form validation that alerts that user if they move to a input text field without inputting any value, everytime I test it firebug I get the error: TypeError: firstName is null firstName.onblur = ValidateForm; It works when I use window.onload = ValidateForm; but I wanted to try it using this event handler How can this be fixed? javascript share|improve this question edited Mar 22 '13 at 3:28 p.campbell 56.2k49187272 asked Mar 22 '13 at 3:07 Errol Wallace 10710 I know I can use First Name: But I wanted to use an easier way without having to add the event to each input element –Errol Wallace Mar 22 '13 at 3:19 Is your script placed after your DOM elements? (i.e., at the end of the body element?). I think you're trying to attach an event handler to an object that hasn't loaded yet. –bento Mar 22 '13 at 3:23 You were totally right, I put the script below the form and it worked perfectly. Thanks a bunch. –Errol Wallace Mar 22 '13 at 3:39 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 1 down vote accepted The javascript code looks fine. Make sure you have the javascript after .... If you declare your event handler before relevant HTML fragment, it might

Login Cancel Not a member? Sign Up Forgot Password? Contact Us Showing help text by using onfocus and onBlur event triggers Some time we will http://www.plus2net.com/javascript_tutorial/text-help.php be interested in displaying some help text about the input box or radio http://forums.asp.net/t/1368360.aspx?How+to+show+error+messages+below+the+TextBox+in+javascript+validation button when we click or mouse is placed inside it. Here we will be using onfocus event to display the help text. Here to display the message we will use Layers by using div tags. Note that once the help is displayed it is to be removed when the mouse or curser error message comes out of the text box, so we will use onBlur event to trigger a JavaScript function when the focus is lost or mouse is taken out. We will place three text boxes and each box will have one onfocus and onBlur events connected to a JavaScript function. The function will receive the id of the layer and the settings to display the layer or display error message hide the layer. demo of displaying help text Here is the code