What is it called or where can I find code for placing a 'suggestion' or grayed out text in a form field box that doesn't get pass as a value. I know i can prepopulate it, but want to use it to only provide guidance. Example, box that says " "
The terminology you're referring to is called a watermark.
There are many existing Javascript solutions written for this already, like this one.
JavaScript will do this. I've used the jQuery framework, for example:
Setting the value:
$('#comment_box').val('Optional comment..');
On click, removing the value:
$('#comment_box').val('');
On submit:
if (comment == 'Optional comment..'){
comment = '';
}
And submit your comment. I've left out the functions here but you can get an idea.
HTML5 has a placeholder attribute supported by many modern browsers.
(But alas not MSIE.)
The above-linked article explains how to test for support and implement a javascript fallback.
use
<input type=text disabled value='...'/>
(disabled wont pass the values, whereas readonly will pass the value)
I think what you are referring to is a watermark
http://www.asp.net/ajax/ajaxcontroltoolkit/Samples/TextBoxWatermark/TextBoxWatermark.aspx
or
there are jquery defaultvalue plugins
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I am using angucomplete-alt in many places of my web application (in forms), but i cant make the autocomplete fields as a 'required' field, even thought i've used the 'field-required' attribute.
angucomplete-alt#sectorSuggested(field-required= true,placeholder='Search sectors', local-data='sectors', selected-object='onSectorSelected', search-fields='Sector', pause='300', minlength='1', title-field='Sector',input-class="form-control form-control-small", name='sector')
how do i make it required field, please help :)
Going off of the documentation and examples I can see here, it looks like the attribute should be
field-required="true"
In the above example, his element looks like this:
<div angucomplete-alt="" id="ex8" placeholder="Search countries" pause="100" selected-object="countrySelected8" local-data="countries" search-fields="name" title-field="name" minlength="1" input-class="form-control form-control-small" match-class="highlight" field-required="true" class="ng-isolate-scope">
Additionally, if you have many required fields, his documentation states:
Set custom class name for required. Unique class names need to be set
when you have multiple directives to validate
You can do this, using the field-required-class attribute.
Taken from here
you can use field-required = "true"
and it should work fine.
I'm using HTML5 field validation for controls input type = "number" , "email". On Submit red outline for this controls are coming since its a required field. But while clearing control values I want to remove this red border also. Any pointers will be helpful. I have tried $("#txtName").removeClass('invalid'); but its not working.
$("#txtName").removeClass('invalid') would work if you have a custom CSS class (.invalid) which you added yourself upon form validation (for example, with $("#txtName").addClass('invalid')).
If you're using built-in form validation (i.e. with <input type="..." required>), you should see
the answer to this other question, specifically the setCustomValidity(error) method.
Is there a way (without JS) to make input fields POST a default value in case some input fields were blank when the submit was executed?
In other words: I want to avoid on server side reciving stuff like
"ID=&PW="
<form>
<input name="ID" value="stuff"/>
<input name="PW" value="stuff"/>
</form>
setting the value doesn't really help as the user still can clean the input field by him self.
There is no way to do so in pure HTML. Even if you use JS to setup defaults, someone can intercept and modify HTTP Request.
Never trust input values. You can't assume their values.
No. Not without JavaScript.
...but it would be so easy with JavaScript. Not that I advocate inline scripts, but how about:
<input name="ID" value="stuff" onBlur="this.value=this.value==''
? 'default'
: this.value;" />
The Javascript you see is a simple ternary operator, following the pattern:
myVar = condition ? valueIfTrue : valueIfFalse;
So it's checking if the input is blank. If so, set it to a default; if not, let it be.
You should simply enforce the default value server-side. Otherwise the user will always have the ability to trip you up. You can use javascript to reduce the chance of this happening but javascript will always be exposed to the user. Html doesn't have a method for this and even if I'm wrong and it does, or does in the future - such a thing is ALSO exposed to the user.
You're talking about using strtok. I'd recommend simply breaking the tokenizing out twice. Once for the &, and then within each of those results again for the = (obviously if the second result of each pair is blank or null, substituting the default). Otherwise, tokenize it yourself, still on the server.
This must be something utterly stupid that I've done or am doing, but I have an input with a value attribute that simply isn't being displayed:
<div class="input text required">
<label for="Product0Make">Make</label>
<input name="data[Product][0][make]"
type="text"
maxlength="255"
value="AC Make"
id="Product0Make">
</div>
Has anyone ever seen this before? Do I have some kind of typo that I'm just blind to? For whatever it may be worth, here's the CakePHP code that's generating this line:
<?php echo $this->Form->input( 'Product.' . $index . '.make', array( 'default' => $product['Product']['make'] ) ) ?>
I have a small form with a handful of text inputs, 1 textarea and 2 selects. None of the text input values display, but everything else is fine.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. I can't even believe I'm having to ask this question, but that's how crazy it's making me.
Argh. I knew this was going to be something beyond stupid. There was a bit of Javascript that was clearing data. The clearing was useful in other places, but I didn't know it was executing so it was a serious pain to track down. Once I prevented the clearing in this scenario, my values actually appeared. Because I was looking at the code in web inspector, I assumed that it would be a "live" view, but I guess that's not entirely true.
Thanks for your help, everyone.
For my side, it was a problem only for Firefox.
I resolved by adding the attribute autocomplete="off" in the input field.
<input type="text" value="value must appear" autocomplete="off"/>
Mine was related to AngularJS
I was trying to put both an HTML Value and an ng-Model, thinking that the ng-Model would default to the Value, because I was too lazy to add the Model to the $scope in the Controller...
So the answer was to assign that default value to the $scope.variable in the controller.
For me it was browser caching. Changing the URL string or clearing history can help.
For Googler's who may have the same issue: This can happen if you have a non-numeric value in a number type input field.
For example:
<input type="number" value="<? echo $myNumberValue; ?> "/>
This will show nothing even though Dev tools says the value is there, since the extra space after ?> makes it non-numeric. Simply remove the extra space.
Are you confusing the uses of the 'default' and the 'value' parameters for $html->input()?
If you're are using 'default' => $product['Product']['make'] and $this->data is present, the field will not be populated. The purpose of the 'default' parameter is to display a default value when no form data ($this->data) is present.
If you want to force display of a value, you should use the 'value' parameter instead. 'value' => $product['Product']['make']
For me it was because I was using the <input> tag without enclosing it inside a <form> tag
Had a similar problem with input value retrieved via ajax, correctly set and verifiable via browser console, but not visible. The issue was another input field having the same id, and it was not evident because of several JSP files included, many of them having forms.
I even set autocomplete to "off" with no result. I ended up putting the next jquery snippet at the document.ready event.
myForm.find("input").each((i, el) => {
$(el).val($(el).attr("value"));
});
Adittionally, this would be the equivalent in pure es2015:
document.querySelectorAll("myForm input").forEach(el => {
el.value = el.getAttribute("value");
});
If your not using a precompilor like Babel and you need compatibility for old browser's versions, change the "(el) =>" for "function(el)". I tried both codes in my scenario and worked fine.
For me the problem was that I had multiple inputs with the same id. I could see the value in the field, but reading it via javascript gave an empty value because it was reading a different input with the same id - I was surprised that there was no javascript error, just could not read the values I could see in the form.
For me it was wrong number format: Chrome expected "49.1", but ASP.NET passed "49,1", and it just didn't display!
<input type="number" value="49,1"/> // Should have been 49.1 !!!
Same problem occured on electron:
I was clearing the field with document.getElementById('_name').value = '' instead of document.getElementById('_name').setAttribute('value', "").
So I guess simple quote broke the field or input has a second value hidden attribute because I could rewrite on the fields and it won't change the value on the inspector
I had the same problem of #Rob Wilkerson, a onchange() was cleaning the value of the input with "", so i changed to 1. Such a dumb problem!
HTML
<input class="form-control inputCustomDay" type="text" id="txtNumIntervalo" onkeyup="changeTipoOptions()" value="1" min="1" />
Jquery
$("#txtNumIntervalo").val(1);
Mine was related to Angular.
I just ran into the same issue recently and realized that when you use NgIf to display a template, the said template does not automatically use display the data from the variables in the component.
As a quick fix I used ngClass just to Hide it and display it.
If anybody happens to be here because their input with type="dateTime-local" is not displaying the value... the value must be in format YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm
Can I replace the maxlength attribute with something in CSS?
<input type='text' id="phone_extension" maxlength="4" />
No.
maxlength is for behavior.
CSS is for styling.
That is why.
No. This needs to be done in the HTML. You could set the value with Javascript if you need to though.
You can use jQuery like:
$("input").attr("maxlength", 4)
Here is a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/TmsXG/13/
I don't think you can, and CSS is supposed to describe how the page looks not what it does, so even if you could, it's not really how you should be using it.
Perhaps you should think about using JQuery to apply common functionality to your form components?
Not with CSS, no.
Not with CSS, but you can emulate and extend / customize the desired behavior with JavaScript.
As others have answered, there is no current way to add maxlength directly to a CSS class.
However, this creative solution can achieve what you are looking for.
I have the jQuery in a file named maxLengths.js which I reference in site (site.master for ASP)
run the snippet to see it in action, works well.
jquery, css, html:
$(function () {
$(".maxLenAddress1").keypress(function (event) {
if ($(this).val().length == 5) { /* obv 5 is too small for an address field, just want to use as an example though */
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
});
});
.maxLenAddress1{} /* this is here mostly for intellisense usage, but can be altered if you like */
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="text" class="maxLenAddress1" />
The advantage of using this: if it is decided the max length for this type of field needs to be pushed out or in across your entire application you can change it in one spot. Comes in handy for field lengths for things like customer codes, full name fields, email fields, any field common across your application.
Use $("input").attr("maxlength", 4)
if you're using jQuery version < 1.6
and $("input").prop("maxLength", 4)
if you are using jQuery version 1.6+.