Change the value of a button in jquery.validate - jquery-validate

I have an aspnet form which I am validating using jquery-validate.
In the form there is a photo upload button. jquery-validate changes the value of this button from 'Upload' to 'Next'. Is it possible to prevent this e.g. add a rule that sets the value of this button, thus overriding jquery-validate's renaming of the button? See example below:
I am new to SO and fairly new to jQuery. Any help mucho abrigado.
<input type="submit" name="ctl00$cphContent$btnUpload" value="Upload" onclick="return checkFile();WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(..)" id="ctl00_cphContent_btnUpload" class="button bt-upload ">
$("#aspnetForm").formwizard({ //form wizard
formPluginEnabled: true,
validationEnabled: true,
focusFirstInput: true,
validationOptions : { //validation rules
debug:true,
errorElement: "span",
rules: {
ctl00$cphContent$btnUpload:{value:"Upload"}
}
}
});

To resolve this issue, I created a 'fakebutton' and hid the original Upload button and then added
$('#fakeupload').click(function(){
$('#ctl00_cphContent_btnUpload').trigger('click');
});
It's not pretty but it works.

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Validation in knockout js input fields

I created some input fields using KnockoutJS, and now I want to validate them.
http://jsfiddle.net/sohimohit/43zkoszu/12/
I tried it using validation plugin but it doesn't work.
I added that plugin and used it as mentioned but didn't get the solution. When you click on "add field" a form appears; I want to make the name field required and branch id as numeric. However, when I click on "add fields" it doesn't get added until the form is validated.
How can I achieve this?
You are not doing validation properly. I recommend this method
Set some settings
ko.validation.configure({
insertMessages: false,
decorateElement: true,
errorElementClass: 'error-element',
errorClass: 'error-element',
errorsAsTitle: true,
parseInputAttributes: false,
messagesOnModified: true,
decorateElementOnModified: true,
decorateInputElement: true
});
Make inputs bind with validationElement
<input type="text" placeholder="Name" data-bind="value:name,validationElement:name">
<input type="text" placeholder="Branch" data-bind="value:branch,validationElement:branch">
Extend observables
self.name = ko.observable().extend({required:true})
self.branch = ko.observable().extend({required:true,digit: true})
Now apply the rule. I prefer group
var data = [
self.name,
self.branch
]
self.Errors = ko.validation.group(data);
Now on add button wrap your code
self.Add = function(){
if(self.Errors.length == 0){
.
.
.
//Your code here
}else{
self.Errors.showAllMessages()
}
}
Hope it helps

MVC3 C# Disabling the Validation Messages on Cancel

I have an MVC2 C# .Net Web App. We are using the built in MVC3 Validation using the Domain class properties [Required(ErrorMessage = "Start From is required.")] and in the HTML #Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.StartFrom)
However, when we submit the page using the Cancel button, the validation is fired stating the "Start From is Required" and therefore not exiting the page. How can I disable the Validation on the Cancel button? Or submit the page without firing the Validation?
I think you need to override the default behaviour of the submit button i.e., Cancel button in your case.
Say you have the cancel button like this:
<input type="submit" id="btnCancel" value="cancel"/>
now write the jQuery to override the default behaviour
$(function(){
$('#btnCancel').click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
//or you can return false from this method.
//return false;
});
});
I found an answer here, on Stackoverflow :) jQuery disable validation
Each of the first two answers in that link worked for me. #Karthik, thanks for the answer. It got me on the right track
Answer 1:
<input id = "theCancel" class="cancel" type="submit" value="Cancel" />
Answer 2:
$(function () {
$('#theCancel').click(function (e) {
$("form").validate().cancelSubmit = true;
});
});
I chose answer 2 and put it in our global js file. All of our Cancel buttons have an id of "theCancel"

exclude button from validation

I have a form with validators and 2 buttons inside form:
<input type="submit" class="LFL_btn" value="" />
<input type="image" src="/Content/images/btn_register.jpg" class="LFR_btn" id="btnRegister" />
but validator works and for second button too. Why and how to fix it?
Why?
Because jquery.validate kicks in when you submit a form by hijacking the submit event of this form. And since both are submit buttons, validation is run for both of them.
how to fix it?
Add class="cancel" to the button you want to exclude from validation which will instruct the jQuery.validate plugin not to run validation:
<input type="image" src="/Content/images/btn_register.jpg" class="LFR_btn cancel" id="btnRegister" />
<input type="image" src="/Content/images/btn_register.jpg" class="LFR_btn cancel" id="btnRegister" />
This has been covered in the documentation.
Obviously all this refers only to client side validation. On the server it's a whole different story. If you wanted to disable validation when some button is clicked you will first need to know which button was clicked. This could happen by giving the first button a name attribute and then inspecting on the server the value of this parameter from the request:
<button type="submit" class="LFL_btn" name="validate" value="validate">Validate</button>
and then inside your controller action check if this button was used to submit the form and apply validation only in this case:
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Foo(string validate)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(validate))
{
// the Validate button was clicked:
var model = new MyViewModel();
if (!TryUpdateModel(model))
{
// there were validation errors => redisplay the view
return View(model);
}
// validation went fine => do some processing...
}
else
{
// the image button was clicked
// do some other processing ...
}
}

Why is a form's submit event not firing (jQuery)?

I have a form + layout like so:
<form ...>
<div id="editor">
[form html]
<input type="submit" value="Submit form" />
</div>
</form>
And the following javascript:
$(function() {
var form = $('#editor').parents('form');
alert(form.length); // this alerts "1"
$(document).on('submit', 'form', function() {
alert('document form submit fired'); // this works as expected (alerts)
});
form.on('submit', function() {
alert('selected form submit fired'); // this is never alerted
});
});
This form is not loaded via ajax. When the page loads, the first dialog alerts "1". However when submitting the form, only one alert is fired -- the one that triggers submit for all forms in the document.
Why would this happen?
It does work. Something else is happening which is preventing the second alert from firing.
Your form selector is incorrect.
Try and do this
$("form").on('submit', function() {
Pretty sure this should work
Actually if nothing is being loaded through ajax or dynamically through javascript
You can just do
$("form").submit(function() {
EDIT
Scratch my above. Didn't see you set the value of form. Check out http://jsfiddle.net/s3fvM/1/. Seems to be working fine to me. both are firing and alerting.

After button disabled its value did not posted to controller

I have an controller which has check like that
if (form["submit"].ToString() == "Continue")
{
}
and i have button which is doing submit
<button name="submit" value="Continue">Continue</button>
It was all working well until i decided to disable Continue button on submit to prevent double click using this function:
$('form').submit(function () {
if ($(this).valid()) {
$(':submit', this).attr('disabled', 'disabled');
}
});
So now i don't get value form["submit"] posted on controller.
Any thoughts how may i fix that?
I want still prevent second click but be able to get form["submit"] value posted on controller.
Can you control the submit value in a hidden field in the form? I can't tell what other logic you might need, but when the form renders, you could set the hidden field's value to the submit button's value and change it when necessary using the first script below. As long as it has a name attribute and is enabled (which you'd rarely disable a hidden field) then it will post when the form is submitted.
$(function() {
// this assumes your button has id="myButton" attribute
$(':hidden[name="submit"]').val($('#myButton').val());
});
And of course in your form, you would need a hidden field with name="submit"
<input type="hidden" name="submit" value="Continue" />
Then, whenever the state of your form changes, modify the disabled state of the button and the value of the hidden field to reflect the value (if it changed at all).
There are also frameworks you may find useful for UI features like this. KnockoutJS comes to mind. It can be used to "value" bind input elements. It's probably overkill for this small example, but it could be useful if your UI expands. I've added markup, script and comments below if you're interested.
$(function () {
var viewModel = {
submitValue: ko.observable("Continue")
};
ko.applyBindings(viewModel);
$('form').submit(function() {
if($(this).valid()) {
// the following line will change the both the hidden field's value
// as well as the button's value attribute
viewModel.submitValue("some other value");
// I couldn't follow your selector here, but please note I changed
// the name of the submit button in the markup below.
$(':submit, this).attr('disabled', 'disabled');
}
});
});
KnockoutJS requires you use the data-bind attribute to setup your elements. In your case, you'd bind one property to multiple elements like this:
<button name="submitButton" data-bind="value: submitValue"/>Continue</button>
<!-- and bind the same value similarly in the hidden field-->
<input type="hidden" name="submit" data-bind="value: submitValue"/>

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