Why does my "oninvalid" attribute let the pattern fail?
If you set a value with setCustomValidity()
then the field is invalid. That is setting a non-zero length string causes the browser to consider the field invalid. In order to allow for the effects of any other validations you have to clear the custom validity:
<input type="password" name="user_password_new" pattern=".{6,}" required
oninvalid="setCustomValidity('Minimum length is 6 characters')"
oninput="setCustomValidity('')" />
I like to use like this:
<input type="email" name="Email" required oninvalid="setCustomValidity('ErrorMessage')"/>
And unplugged for all of valid input data
UPD, one more thing for better work:
$("input").attr("onblur", "setCustomValidity('')");
$("input").attr("oninput", "setCustomValidity(' ')");
Since I stumbled on the same problem, here is my solution – tested and working with FF, Chrome, IE 10, Edge (Feb 2017).
<form>
<input pattern="1234" oninput="setCustomValidity(''); checkValidity(); setCustomValidity(validity.valid ? '' :'please enter 1234');">
<input type="email" required>
<input type="submit">
</form>
Explanation:
setCustomValidity('');
removes the custom error string which otherwise would always result in an invalid field at the validation process.
checkValidity();
does a manual validation – the same as it is happening at the form submisson. The result is stored in validity.valid
.
The second setCustomValidity(validity.valid ? '' :'please enter 1234');
now sets the error string according to the validation result. If the field is valid it needs to be empty, otherwise the custom error string can be set.