How to pass the form validation error msg into the tooltip text

[Vengo]

Hi,
I have a doubt whether it is possible to give the form validation error msg to the tooltip which is used for field description.

thanks in advance,

cheers,
vengo.

[gits]

please show your code ... what field, what tooltip do you mean?

kind regards

[Vengo]

[HTML]<form name="test" method="post">
<tr>
<td>User Name:</td><td><input type="text" name="fname" id="fname" size="30" tooltipText="Type in your First Name in this box" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Password:</td><td><input type="password" name="pwd" value="" size="30" id="pwd" tooltipText="Type in your Password in this box"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td><td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Add" class="btn"></td>
</tr>
</form>
[/HTML]
The above will be my code in which there are two fields with the tool tip displaying about the description about those fields and if i want to validate the user name i want to display those validation text in to the same tooltip, is this possible?

regds

[gits]

in your validation function refer to the node and use the setAttribute() method:

node.setAttribute('tooltiptext', 'your_validation_text');

kind regards

[Vengo]

i gave the following validation, but i could get anything. is this correct?

<script language="javascript">
function validate()
{    
    var form=document.test;
 
    if(form.fname.value == ''){
        fname.setAttribute('tooltipText', 'enter user name');
        form.fname.focus();
        return false;
    }    
}    
</script>    

regds

[gits]

you should refer with the form of course ... next you should use the type attribute of the script tag since the language attribute is deprecated, and attribute names should be written in lower case ... try the following:

<script type="text/javascript">
function validate() {    
    var form = document.test;
 
    if (form.fname.value == '') {
        form.fname.setAttribute('tooltiptext', 'enter user name');
        form.fname.focus();
        return false;
    }    
}    
</script>
 

kind regards

[Vengo]

thanx, it is working now . but you know only after some other function like after returning from the password field or something like that.
first i gave the validate on the onclick event of submit and even tried it with the onblur of user name but the validation text appears in the tooltip only after some other function like i said above.

thanks again,

regds
vengo

[gits]

sorry ... i don't get it ;( ... could you please post the code that shows how you did it?

kind regards

[Vengo]

what i need is it should be displayed till the correct name given.

thanks
vengo

[Vengo]

(script)

<script type="text/javascript">
function validate() {   
    var form = document.test;
 
    if (form.fname.value == '') {
        form.fname.setAttribute('tooltiptext', 'enter user name');
        form.fname.focus();
        return false;
    }   
}   
</script>

(html)


[HTML]<table >
<form name="test" method="post">
<tr>
<td>User Name:</td><td><input type="text" name="fname" id="fname" size="30" tooltipText="Type in your First Name in this box" onblur="return validate();"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Password:</td><td><input type="password" name="pwd" value="" size="30" id="pwd" tooltipText="Type in your Password in this box"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td><td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Add" class="btn"></td>
</tr>
</form>
</table>[/HTML]

[Vengo]

also with the following method,

[HTML] <tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td><td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Add" class="btn" onClick="return validate();"></td>
</tr>
</form>
</table>[/HTML]

regds

vengo

[gits]

use it with the form's onsubmit handler:

onsubmit="return validate();"

and adapt the function to return true in case the check is ok:

<script type="text/javascript">
function validate() {
    var ret = true;
    var form = document.test;
 
    if (form.fname.value == '') {
        form.fname.setAttribute('tooltiptext', 'enter user name');
        form.fname.focus();
        ret = false;
    }
 
    return ret;
}   
</script>

kind regards

[Vengo]

Hey Gits,

thanks a lot, i think it is now working good.

thanks again,

regds