Question

I use jQuery.validationEngine plugin and i want to show alerts only after the user submit the form not while editing the form.

Example:

<form id="formID" method="post" action="submit.action">
<input value="2010-12-01" class="validate[required,custom[date]]" type="text" name="date" id="date" />

$(document).ready(function(){
   $("#formID").validationEngine();
 });

I know that this is might be easy but i’m new to $.

Answer 1

Validation engine does this.. set the “binded” option to true. ex:

$(document).ready(function(){
   $("#formID").validationEngine('attach', {
        binded: TRUE
   });
 });

https://github.com/posabsolute/jQuery-Validation-Engine

According to the docs, the above should work. Since it doesn’t try something like this

$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#formbutton").click(function(){
        $("#form").validationEngine().submit();
        $("#form").validationEngine('detach');
    });
});

Make the validationengine attach on the button submit. If it fails you detach to get rid of inline edits.