yiiActiveForm('validate', true) submits form

[adhayward]

I'm trying to force validate on a form before displaying a confirmation to the user.

So I've tried calling:
$('#formId').yiiActiveForm('validate')
Which didn't appear to do much.

Then I tried to use the forceValidate option:
$('#formId').yiiActiveForm('validate', true)

This validated everything as expected but immediately triggered the form submit which I don't want yet.

Looking at the code in yii.activeForm.js the validate function starts with:
if (forceValidate) { $(this).data('yiiActiveForm').submitting = true; } ...

• Is there a way to trigger validation of all fields in the form (and show error messages to the user) without submitting it?

• Is it worth renaming the forceValidate parameter here to something like submitWhenValid so it's more obvious what it does or creating a second parameter so that we force all fields to be validated without submitting the form?

Q	A
Yii version	2.0.13
PHP version	7.0
Operating system	Windows 10

[alex-code]

Possible dup #13105

[SilverFire]

Closing as a duplicate