[Form Validation] search selection dropdown with rule type 'empty' validates on form clear or form reset.

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Bug Report

[Form Validation] search selection dropdown with rule type 'empty' validates on form clear or form reset.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a form with a search selection dropdown in it.
2. Create validation rules for the field and search selection dropdown of type 'empty'.
3. Create a button to clear/reset the form (or create a submit button with a call to clear/reset the form on submission)
4. Fill in the form, including the search-selection dropdown.
5. Press the clear/reset button (or submit the form if on submission the form clears/resets)

Expected result

If a form is cleared or reset then all the fields in the form, including the search selection dropdown, should clear their data and remove error messages.

Actual result

Instead of clearing the data from the search selection dropdown, like it does for the regular inputs, the form runs validation on the search selection dropdown and then displays an error.

Test case

https://jsfiddle.net/St4r8ucK/ukdLbe08/25/

Screenshot (when possible)

Version

2.7.5

[lubber-de]

After looking at the code, it turns out the docs are not up to date.
The provided input field won't be correctly recognized as search input and the module always creates a second input field.

To fix this you have 2 options:

- remove the type=hidden and add class="search" to the input field
https://jsfiddle.net/sbk9w4dt/
~ or~
- remove the entire input field, it will be created by the module automatically
https://jsfiddle.net/sbk9w4dt/1/
[Edit]
I was talking nonsense again...

[lubber-de]

🤔 mmh, tested again, my suggested fix is not accurate enough, the form validation won't find the input at all to validate it.... I think, we definately have to fix something here in the code. Also the docs are fine (the hidden input was a value holder only instead of meant to be used as search input, my fault..)

[lubber-de]

Finally fixed by #1092
See your adjusted jsfiddle here https://jsfiddle.net/y6qmp8bd/