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Checkbox validation with errorPlacement and hidden field [duplicate]

In the new version of jQuery validation plugin 1.9 by default validation of hidden fields ignored. I'm using CKEditor for textarea input field and it hides the field and replace it with iframe. The field is there, but validation disabled for hidden fields. With validation plugin version 1.8.1 everything works as expected.
So my question is how to enable validation for hidden fields with v1.9 validation plugin.
This setting doesn't work:
$.validator.setDefaults({ ignore: '' });

The plugin's author says you should use "square brackets without the quotes", []
http://bassistance.de/2011/10/07/release-validation-plugin-1-9-0/
Release: Validation Plugin 1.9.0:
"...Another change should make the setup of forms with hidden elements
easier, these are now ignored by default (option “ignore” has
“:hidden” now as default). In theory, this could break an existing
setup. In the unlikely case that it actually does, you can fix it by
setting the ignore-option to “[]” (square brackets without the
quotes)."
To change this setting for all forms:
$.validator.setDefaults({
ignore: [],
// any other default options and/or rules
});
(It is not required that .setDefaults() be within the document.ready function)
OR for one specific form:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#myform').validate({
ignore: [],
// any other options and/or rules
});
});
EDIT:
See this answer for how to enable validation on some hidden fields but still ignore others.
EDIT 2:
Before leaving comments that "this does not work", keep in mind that the OP is simply asking about the jQuery Validate plugin and his question has nothing to do with how ASP.NET, MVC, or any other Microsoft framework can alter this plugin's normal expected behavior. If you're using a Microsoft framework, the default functioning of the jQuery Validate plugin is over-written by Microsoft's unobtrusive-validation plugin.
If you're struggling with the unobtrusive-validation plugin, then please refer to this answer instead: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11053251/594235

This worked for me, within an ASP.NET MVC3 site where I'd left the framework to setup unobtrusive validation etc., in case it's useful to anyone:
$("form").data("validator").settings.ignore = "";

Make sure to put
$.validator.setDefaults({ ignore: '' });
NOT inside $(document).ready

So I'm going to go a bit deeper in to why this doesn't work because I'm the kind of person that can't sleep at night without knowing haha. I'm using jQuery validate 1.10 and Microsoft jQuery Unobtrusive Validation 2.0.20710.0 which was published on 1/29/2013.
I started by searching for the setDefaults method in jQuery Validate and found it on line 261 of the unminified file. All this function really does is merge your json settings in to the existing $.validator.defaults which are initialized with the ignore property being set to ":hidden" along with the other defaults defined in jQuery Validate. So at this point we've overridden ignore. Now let's see where this defaults property is being referenced at.
When I traced through the code to see where $.validator.defaults is being referenced. I noticed that is was only being used by the constructor for a form validator, line 170 in jQuery validate unminified file.
// constructor for validator
$.validator = function( options, form ) {
this.settings = $.extend( true, {}, $.validator.defaults, options );
this.currentForm = form;
this.init();
};
At this point a validator will merge any default settings that were set and attach it to the form validator. When you look at the code that is doing the validating, highlighting, unhighlighting, etc they all use the validator.settings object to pull the ignore property. So we need to make sure if we are to set the ignore with the setDefaults method then it has to occur before the $("form").validate() is called.
If you're using Asp.net MVC and the unobtrusive plugin, then you'll realize after looking at the javascript that validate is called in document.ready. I've also called my setDefaults in the document.ready block which is going to execute after the scripts, jquery validate and unobtrusive because I've defined those scripts in the html before the one that has the call in it. So my call obviously had no impact on the default functionality of skipping hidden elements during validation. There is a couple of options here.
Option 1 - You could as Juan Mellado pointed out have the call outside of the document.ready which would execute as soon as the script has been loaded. I'm not sure about the timing of this since browsers are now capable of doing parallel script loading. If I'm just being over cautious then please correct me. Also, there's probably ways around this but for my needs I did not go down this path.
Option 2a - The safe bet in my eyes is to just replace the $.validator.setDefaults({ ignore: '' }); inside of the document.ready event with $("form").data("validator").settings.ignore = "";. This will modify the ignore property that is actually used by jQuery validate when doing each validation on your elements for the given form.
Options 2b - After looking in to the code a bit more you could also use $("form").validate().settings.ignore = ""; as a way of setting the ignore property. The reason is that when looking at the validate function it checks to see if a validator object has already been stored for the form element via the $.data() function. If it finds a validator object stored with the form element then it just returns the validator object instead of creating another one.

This worked for me within an ASP.NET site.
To enable validation on some hidden fields use this code
$("form").data("validator").settings.ignore = ":hidden:not(#myitem)";
To enable validation for all elements of form use this one
$("form").data("validator").settings.ignore = "";
Note that use them within $(document).ready(function() { })

Just added ignore: [] in the specific page for the specific form, this solution worked for me.
$("#form_name").validate({
ignore: [],
onkeyup: false,
rules: {
},
highlight:false,
});

This is working for me.
jQuery("#form_name").validate().settings.ignore = "";

The validation was working for me on form submission, but it wasn't doing the reactive event driven validation on input to the chosen select lists.
To fix this I added the following to manually trigger the jquery validation event that gets added by the library:
$(".chosen-select").each(function() {
$(this).chosen().on("change", function() {
$(this).parents(".form-group").find("select.form-control").trigger("focusout.validate");
});
});
jquery.validate will now add the .valid class to the underlying select list.
Caveat: This does require a consistent html pattern for your form inputs. In my case, each input filed is wrapped in a div.form-group, and each input has .form-control.

Just find the text ignore: ":hidden" in your jquery validation file and comment it.
After comment this it will never loss any hidden elements to validate...
Thanks

Parsley.js skip validation on submit?

When I try to submit a form, either via an input[type=submit] or by calling form.submit(), Parsley validates the form and cancels the submission if invalid. Is there any way I can skip that validation since I'm manually calling validate on sections of my form?
Specifically what I'm trying to achieve is submitting partial versions of the form, so I validate a group and only that portion is sent to the server (even if the rest of the form is still not valid).

I you want to cancel Parsley default validation on submit event, you'll have to remove the submit.Parsley binded event on your form.
Doing a $('#yourform').off('submit.Parsley'); should solve your issue.
Best
Edit: For Parsley2, since events names have changed, it should be $('#yourform').off('form:validate');

if you want to skip single element just use :
data-parsley-excluded
Form fields that won't be validated by Parsley. For example, if you
want to add disabled and hidden fields to the existing list, use:
data-parsley-excluded="input[type=button], input[type=submit],
input[type=reset], input[type=hidden], [disabled], :hidden"
but if you want to validate a specific groupd then use:
data-parsley-group
Assign a group to a field for specific group validation. eg:
data-parsley-group="signup". This way, you could only validate a
portion of a form and not all the fields.
source :
http://parsleyjs.org/doc/index.html#psly-usage-form

When running the submit in JS you can do:
$('#yourform').parsley().destroy();
So with jQuery in code, it could look like this:
var $myForm = $('#yourform');
$("#submit-button").on('click',function(e){
e.preventDefault();
$myForm.parsley().destroy();
$myForm.submit();
});

As I answered here, adding formnovalidate to the button seems to work
https://stackoverflow.com/a/74746624/1148163

JQuery Validate plugin alters submission button CSS

I am using Jquery Validate plugin for a form. Everything works fine except if I tab to the submission button it changes the text color. I have tried using the "ignore:" option then specify the class of the submission button in the validate() function but this doesn't work.
$("#edit_phone_form").validate({
ignore: ".orange-button",
rules: {
phone_number: {
required: true,
phoneUS: true
}
}
});
If anyone knows how I can tell Validate to ignore the ".orange-button" class please let me know. I have no code that is manipulating this button so I know Validate is doing something since it does this same text effect with all other form elements.
Thanks!

Quote OP:
" have no code that is manipulating this button so I know Validate is doing something since it does this same text effect with all other form elements."
There is absolutely nothing in the jQuery Validate plugin that is affecting the color/look/style of your buttons... nothing at all. Even when the plugin adds or removes classes on validation, it does not contain any CSS properties, nor does it manipulate any CSS properties, period.
Furthermore, the plugin doesn't validate buttons since they have nothing to do with entering data into the form. The plugin only validates the various "data input" elements, text boxes, text areas, select lists, radios and checkboxes... and nothing else. Then if the form data passes/fails validation, a success/error class is applied to the element along with a new element containing an error message.
Here is a demo with what you've described in your OP: http://jsfiddle.net/5vFCg/
<input type="submit" class="orange-button" />
As you can see, the submit buttons are rendered as default browser buttons, and their look is totally unaltered from the browser default, proving that jQuery Validate is doing nothing to these buttons.
You must have overlooked something. Show enough code to create a demo of what you're seeing.

Remove Chrome Autofill text onclick with Javascript or JQuery

I'm having trouble removing the text that is generated by Chrome autofill with JQuery. Thus far I have been doing this.
$(document).ready(function () {
$(".link").click(function () {
$("#textbox").val("");
return false;
});
This removes the text just fine except if it was auto fill text. I would like to be able to remove this text without disabling autocomplete altogether i.e. I don't want to use autocomplete="off."
Right now I'm using JQuery but I'm not opposed to just using plain Javascript instead.
P.S. These text boxes are ASP.NET MVC3 Html.TextBoxFor's. I don't know if that makes a difference.

Perhaps you can use the autocomplete="off" attribute on elements or on the form itself. Related question here Is there a W3C valid way to disable autocomplete in a HTML form?

Custom validations troubles

I’m using Sys.Mvc to count errors and I have added my own custom validations by jQuery.
var validationErrors = Sys.Mvc.FormContext.getValidationForForm(this).validate('submit');
var errorsCount = validationErrors.length;
And also I have some fields, which will by hide (by using jQuery .hide();)
Question: How I can remove errors from Sys.Mvc.FormContext if the required element is hidden and add the error if the element is appearing again?
OR
How I can ignore hidden elements validation errors?
Best regards Paul.

Try to initialize the field even if it is hidden (using jQuery), and insert a temporary value. after submitting the form - you can insert the right value into the hidden fields (in the controller).
Something like this:
$("#myField").hide();
$("#myField").val("temporaryValidValue");