errorClass different element

[IschaGast]

Sometimes you want to add an errorClass to an element that's around your label and inputs. This way you can change the color from your labels etc...

That would be a nice feature.

[ericelliott]

Thanks for the suggestion. It's certainly a good one. In the mean time, you can override the markValid and markInvalid functions, but be aware, I'm planning to change the function signatures in the next version.

[jan-harmsen]

+1 regarding errorClass for different element.
I am currently evaluating various html5 form libs and just stumbled on h5Validate which looks quite good on first impression.
What does concern me is your remark about changing the API (function signatures) in the next version, since this breaks backwards compatibility. What is the general strategy towards providing backwards compatibility in future versions of h5Validate? Thanks!

[ericelliott]

I think what I'll do is offer callbacks that you can pass in for markValid and markInvalid so that you can do whatever you need to do to customize your implementation, and still take advantage of all the testing and best practices that we've baked into h5Validate.

FYI, the function signatures have already been updated - replaced the parameters with an options collection so that we can make non-breaking changes if we need to modify options in the future.

I don't anticipate any more breaking changes. The roadmap for 1.0 is to let users pass in their custom callbacks during initialization, so that won't require any incompatible changes to the API.

[jan-harmsen]

THANKS for responding that fast and with such good news, sounds great, that's exactly what I had hoped for :-)

[ericelliott]

In case you're curious -- those callbacks have been pushed as of 0.6.0 -- but I haven't written any documentation for them. You can pass in callbacks for both markValid and markInvalid methods, and there's some other new hotness as well: $('#myField').h5Validate('isValid') will return true or false, as will $('myForm').h5Validate('allValid); -- but there is a chance that I'll change the function signatures on those before the 1.0 release.

[tmikaeld]

Please let us know if you change those, as i'm currently using them extensively.

[ericelliott]

isValid changed today. You might want to look at the diff from the last pull.