How to trigger form validation without submitting the form

[Ankit_Modi]

Actually it turns out that users are randomly having errors with this code, where it will say fields are not validating even though they are. If you keep changing things around it eventually disappears. I’ve had it happen to myself once or twice but can not recreate it anymore. Any ideas on why that might be happening?

Hi please see this forum

i hope it’s some help.

[skyer2000 (Chadhuntley)]

Hi please see this forum

i hope it’s some help.

Unfortunately no, the form I’m working with does not actually submit, what I need to do is fire the form validation upon pressing a button that does not submit.

[jayasam (Jayasameera)]

With this, all the code to manually trigger validation is…

var form = $("#formId");

    var settings = form.data('settings') ;

    settings.submitting = true ;

    $.fn.yiiactiveform.validate(form, function(messages) {

        if($.isEmptyObject(messages)) { // If there are no error messages all data are valid

            $.each(settings.attributes, function () {

               $.fn.yiiactiveform.updateInput(this,messages,form); 

            });

//We update each attribute again even if there are no messages so that any error messages disappear. Good if your request takes long so the user doesn't see errors 

            successFunction();

        } else {

            // Fields acquiring invalid data classes and messages show up. Update the inputs.

            settings = form.data('settings'),

            $.each(settings.attributes, function () {

               $.fn.yiiactiveform.updateInput(this,messages,form); 

            });

            settings.submitting = false ;

        }

    });

[size="3"]I need to get the return value of this method. I tried to return true/false but failed. Need help [/size]