Sets or gets whether the arrow of the hints will be shown.

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Set the arrow property.

$('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator( { arrow: false } ); 

Get the arrow property.

var arrow = $('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator('arrow'); 

Sets or gets the animation of showing, hiding the hints.

Possible Values:

'fade'

'none'

Code examples

Initialize a jqxValidator with the animation property specified.

$('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator({ animation: 'none' }); 

Get the animation property.

var animation = $('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator('animation'); 

Sets or gets the duration of the animation used for showing/hiding the hints.

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Set the animationDuration property.

$('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator({ animationDuration: 300 }); 

Get the animationDuration property.

var animationDuration = $('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator('animationDuration'); 

Sets or gets whether the hints will be closed when the user click on them.

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Set the closeOnClick property.

$('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator({ closeOnClick: false });
                        

Get the closeOnClick property.

var closeOnClick = $('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator('closeOnClick'); 

Sets or gets whether the jqxValidator will focus the first invalid input.

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Set the focus property.

$('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator( { focus: false } ); 

Get the focus property.

var focus = $('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator('focus'); 

Sets or gets the hint type. Possible values: 'tooltip' and 'label'.

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Set the hintType property.

$('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator({hintType : 'label'}); 

Get the hintType property.

var hintType = $('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator('hintType'); 

Sets or gets callback which will be called on validation error.

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Set the onError property .

$('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator({ onError: function () { alert('You havent filled the form correctly!'); } }); 

Get the onError property.

var onError = $('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator('onError'); 

Sets or gets the callback which will be executed on success.

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Set the onSuccess property.

$('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator({ onSuccess: function () { alert('Success!'); } }); 

Get the onSuccess property.

var onSuccess = $('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator('onSuccess'); 

Sets or gets the default position of the hints.

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Set the position property.

$('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator({ position: 'topcenter' }); 

Get the position property.

var position = $('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator('position'); 

Sets jqxValidator rules. Format of a single rule is as follows:

{ input: 'selector-of-the-input', 
    message: 'Custom message on error', 
    action: 'Custom action (keyup, change...etc)', 
    rule: 'Build rule (ssn, phone, email...) or custom function', 
    position: 'Position of the hint (format pos:x,y)', 
    hintRender: 'Function for hint rendering' }
                                

Let's look at all different properties of a single rule.
The input property must be selector of the input you want to validate (we recommend to use ids - example: '#userInput').
The message property is the custom message which will popup, on validation error, for the current rule.
Action is a string which is the event on which you want to validate the input (for example click, mouseup, blur, keyup...).
The rule property is defining the way you want to validate the input.

In jqxValidator there are built in rules like: 'ssn', 'email', 'required', 'phone', 'zipCode', 'maxLength=len', 'minLength=len', 'length=max,min'. In the last three validation rules the strings after the "=" are the rule parameters, for example: 'maxLength=13'. You can also write a function for a custom rule.

'ssn' - 'Social Security Number' Requires input like: ___-__-____
'email' - requires valid e-mail address.
'required' - requires a CheckBox or Radio Button to be checked or any value to be entered in an Input.
'phone' - requires input like: (___)___-____
'zipCode' - requires a valid zip code like: ___-__-____
'maxLength=len' - restricts the maximum input characters to 'len'.
'minLength=len' - restricts the minimum input characters to 'len'
'length=min,max' - restricts the input length to a specific range.


Hint positions are as follows: 'left', 'right', 'top', 'bottom', 'bottomcenter', 'topcenter', 'topleft', 'topright', 'bottomleft', 'bottomright'. If you wish to set also an offset you can pass the position like: 'topleft:15,3'. This is going to position your message popup in top-left of the input with offset: left - 15px, top - 3px.

The last property is hintRender. This is function used for hint rendering. If you don't pass one the default is going to be used. Notice that the position and hintRender are optional. If you don't set them the default values are going to be used.

Code examples

Initialize a jqxValidator with the rules property specified.

$('#form').jqxValidator( { rules: [{ input: '#passwordInput', 
                                        message: 'The password is required!',
                                        action: 'keyup', 
                                        rule: 'required' },
                                    { input: '#passwordInput', 
                                        message: 'Your password must be between 4 and 12 characters!', 
                                        action: 'keyup', 
                                        rule: 'length=4,12' }] } );

Custom Rule Definition. The function returns true or false depending on whether the input is correct or not.

{ input: '#birthInput', message: 'Your birth date must be between 1/1/1900 and 1/1/2012.', action: 'valuechanged', rule: function () {
    var date = $('#birthInput').jqxDateTimeInput('value');
    var result = date.dateTime.getFullYear() >= 1900 && date.dateTime.getFullYear() <= 2012;
    return result;
}
                        

Set the hintRender property of a rule.

$('#sendButton').on('click', function () {
    $('#testForm').jqxValidator('validate');
});

var that = this;
var render = function (message, input) {
    if (that._message) {
        that._message.remove();
    }
    that._message = $("
<span style='background: red; color: white;'>" + message + "</span>
")
    that._message.appendTo($(document.body));
    return that._message;
}

    $('#testForm').jqxValidator({
    rules: [
        { input: '#userInput', message: 'Username is required!', action: 'keyup, blur', rule: 'required', hintRender: render },
        { input: '#userInput', message: 'Your username must be between 3 and 12 characters!', action: 'keyup, blur', rule: 'length=3,12', hintRender: render }
]});
                        

Sets or gets a value indicating whether the validation messages are displayed from the left side instead of the right.

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Set the rtl property.

$('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator({rtl : true}); 

Get the rtl property.

var rtl = $('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator('rtl'); 

This is triggered when the form is validated with some errors.

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Bind to the validationError event.

$('#jqxValidator').on('validationError', function (event) { // Some code here. }); 

This is triggered when the form is validated whithout any errors.

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Bind to the validationSuccess event.

$('#jqxValidator').on('validationSuccess', function (event) { // Some code here. }); 

Hide all hints for a specific input.

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Invoke the hideHint method.

$('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator('hideHint', '#passwordInput');
                        

Hiding all hints for the current form.

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Invoke the hide method.

$('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator('hide');
                        

Updating the positions of all hints. This is useful for example on window resize.

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Invoke the checkItem method.

$('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator('updatePosition');
                              
                         

Validating the whole form.

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Invoke the validate method.

$('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator('validate', element);
                        

Validates a single input. This method accepts a single parameter which is selector of the input you want to validate. Notice that this selector should be the same like the one you've passed in the rules array.

Code example

Invoke the validateInput method.

$('#jqxValidator').jqxValidator('validateInput', '#passwordInput');