What if you already use some library that occupies the $ variable and you want to continue using it and jQuery together. What happens in this case if you load jQuery is that it will override the variable to jQuery object and you won’t be able to use your existing library. Possible solutions of this are:
- Reassign jQuery from $ to something like $jq.
- Include jQuery first and after it the other library. After this instead of typing $ you will have to type jQuery. Example: jQuery(‘#mydivId’);
- You can also use the jQuery.noConflict() method to revert the $ to the value it had before jQuery was included in the page.
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Well, after using jQuery inline form validation plugin for some time the most serious problem with it was that it didn’t allow me to freely customize my UI. If i had a defined design of a form before writing the validation part I always had to alter design so that validation bubbles don’t pop onto something important. Like a “Invalid CAPTCHA code!” poping up on the CAPTCHA image or other stuff like this. Check-boxes are also easy “eaten” by the validation bubbles.
What i’ve written is a simple patch for jQuery inline form validation plugin allowing custom positioning of the validation bubbles. It gives you the possibility to override the default positioning by adding promptPosition attribute to the validated element with a value of any possible positioning pattern supported by the plugin (topLeft, topRight, bottomLeft, centerRight, bottomRight). Read more…
Categories: Frameworks, IT, JavaScript, Useful Tools Tags: forms, inlive validation, javascript, JQuery, patch, plugin, prompt positioning, validation
jQuery Inline Form Validation Engine
Recently I’ve been surfing the net in search of a jQuery powered form validation plugin, the best of what I found is the jQuery Inline Form Validation Engine. On the left is a screenshot of plugin’s performance which i find quite good from both programming and design point of views. The screenshot is taken from plugin’s author’s website at http://www.position-absolute.com.
It’s quite easy to implement in your project and consists from just a couple of JS files one ( one of them contains error messages and validation rules and the other validation code itself). Also you have to include a single css file and that’s all. No images required at all.
You can easily add your own custom validation rules and tweak the stuff that’s already present in the code. Everything is pretty simple and requires a basic knowledge of JavaScript.
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Recently we’ve spent several days trying to decide which UI JavaScript framework/library to use. Our company is developing a media website with funky design which has a very complex admin panel with lots of crammed together pages. We were going to rewrite the admin CP’s UI from scratch because of it’s slowness and were searching for a solution that would require as small as possible effort to build a functional/comfortable admin panel and require only minor UI customizations. Also the library we use should have made our life easier when doing stuff on the main funky site. Well we couldn’t find a solution which will satisfy both this requirements instead we decided to use ExtJS for the admin CP and JQuery for the main site. The reasons behind this choice are listed bellow:
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