What it is
It is an extensible and highly configurable jquery plugin which allows validation of the HTML5's forms
while the user is typing
It is extensible because it allows the programmer to define new restrictions beyond those already defined by HTML5
It is highly configurable because not only does it allow changes to the validation rules defined by HTML5,
but also the addition of new ones.
Moreover, although assuming, by default, behaviors and ways to flag the errors in a very intuitive manner,
it also provides the developer with complete freedom to redefine or even suppress them.
How it works
The ht5ifv sees the new HTML5's constraint attributes and the new input types as restrictions
As so, given one (or more) form element it finds all (this may be filtered out) the fields (text areas,
inputs, selects, radios and checkboxes) and, if they have an explicit (pattern, required, min, or max) or
implicit (type) restriction, it installs a 'validate' handler and a 'check' handler
The first just checks if the field is inline with the restriction and flags it if not
The second marks the field as valid or invalid. The field is valid if none of the restriction was flagged
When these handlers are triggered is configurable
A field is always in a valid or invalid state. When a field is in valid state there are no sub-states.
However, if the state is invalid then it has at least one sub-state. There are one sub-state for each restriction.
For example an input of type number with max restriction of 20.5 is invalid and is in the sub-states type-error
and max-error when the value present in the field is +30
(The caracter + is not allowed for numbers)
What is supported
For the input fields it supports the required, pattern, min and max explicit restrictions and the implicit
restriction associated to the type
All defined types(color, date, datetime, datetime-local, email, month, number,
password, range, search, tel, text, time and week) are supported.
If the developer needs others non-standard types, or does not want/cannot be strictly inline with W3C,
she can (re)define them
As
stated by W3C
the min and max restrictions aplly only to the following types: number, data, datatime,
datatime-local, month, range, time and week
Once again the developer may define this kind of restrictions for the other types or new ones
As defined by W3C the only restriction supported for the checkboxes, radios, textareas and selects
is the required. Inline with this the ht5ifv only supports required restriction on those fields, but the
developer can extend it.
Available Extensions
Currently all available extensions are packaged together in an extension module included in distribution
archive. See the extensions documentation to see how to use it
How to use it