I am working on a proyect with MVC3 and I am trying to integrate qTip2 with jQuery validation in order to show errors as floating tips. The problem I am having is that apparently calling errorPlacement on form validation is not doing anything, guess it has something to do with the way MVC handles it.
Basically, what I want to do is use the integrated validation between MVC3 and jQuery (annotations) but also integrated with qTip to change how the error msg is shown.
I have searched all over and the best I could find was someone suggesting modifying the jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js - onError function, but I checked it out and had no idea how to modify it properly, plus would prefer a solution that did not require me to alter existing scripts.
Thank you for your help.
What I have so far:
My Model:
public class User
{
[Required]
public string Id { get; set; }
[Required]
[DataType(DataType.EmailAddress)]
public string Email { get; set; }
public string FirstName { get; set; }
public string SecondName { get; set; }
public string LastName { get; set; }
}
My javascript in my view:
$('#Form').validate({
errorClass: "errormessage",
errorClass: 'error',
validClass: 'valid',
errorPlacement: function (error, element) {
// Set positioning based on the elements position in the form
var elem = $(element),
corners = ['left center', 'right center'],
flipIt = elem.parents('span.right').length > 0;
// Check we have a valid error message
if (true) {
// Apply the tooltip only if it isn't valid
elem.filter(':not(.valid)').qtip({
overwrite: false,
content: error,
position: {
my: corners[flipIt ? 0 : 1],
at: corners[flipIt ? 1 : 0],
viewport: $(window)
},
show: {
event: false,
ready: true
},
hide: false,
style: {
classes: 'ui-tooltip-red' // Make it red... the classic error colour!
}
})
// If we have a tooltip on this element already, just update its content
.qtip('option', 'content.text', error);
}
// If the error is empty, remove the qTip
else { elem.qtip('destroy'); }
},
success: $.noop // Odd workaround for errorPlacement not firing!
})
$('#Form').submit(function () {
if (!$(this).valid())
return false;
$.ajax({
url: this.action,
type: this.method,
data: $(this).serialize(),
beforeSend: function () {
},
success: function (result) {
},
error: function (result) {
}
});
return false;
});
Great solution thanks, I've used this im my application.
...To further add, instead of modifying the jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js file directly I used the following to modify the default behaviour of unobtrusive validation.
$(document).ready(function () {
var settngs = $.data($('form')[0], 'validator').settings;
settngs.errorPlacement = function(error, inputElement) {
// Modify error placement here
};
});
Eagerly Performing ASP.NET MVC 3 Unobtrusive Client Side Validation