Question

I had some textareas on a page that used jquery.validate. I added CKEDITOR to those textareas, and now the testers are complaining that when they make an error, the validator warns them that there is an error (because I do an updateElement on the editors before calling it), but the textareas don’t get a red border any more. Is there a way to fix that? Is there a way to find the CKEDITOR instance in the errorPlacement function?

Answer 1

I’ve discovered I was barking up the wrong tree using errorPlacement. Instead, I added a highlight and unhighlight function:

      errorPlacement: function(error, element)
      {
        $(element).parent('div').prev().append(error[0]);
      },
      highlight: function(element, errorClass, validClass)
      {
        $(element).parent().addClass(errorClass).removeClass(validClass);
      },
      unhighlight: function(element, errorClass, validClass)
      {
        $(element).parent().addClass(validClass).removeClass(errorClass);
      }