Question

My Facebox pop-up contains a form with a submit button. I also have a second button to open an unrelated Facebox pop-up that was working before I added jQuery.validate to the project. I need to validate the email and password fields prior to being submitted.

I should add that these pop-ups are loaded via external .html files. This loaded them via AJAX request.

On index.html, the pop-ups are setup ($k is equal to jQuery.noConflict());

$k('a[rel*=example_2]').facebox_1({
    loading_image : '/images/loading.gif',
    close_image   : '/images/closelabel.gif'
});

And the link clicked to open the above Facebox:

<a href="login.html" title="Log In" rel="example_2" id='login'>Log In </a>

And everything below is in login.html

The validation:

$(function () {
    $('form[name="login"]').validate({
        rules: {
            email: { required: true, email: true },
            password: "required"
        },
        messages: {
            email: "",
            password: ""
        }
    });
});

And the form:

<form name="login" method="post" action="login.aspx">

And the button that doesn’t work

<a href="#" title="Register" onclick="showRegister()" ><img src="images/register.jpg" /></a>

Nick helped me get the form posting in this post, but it seems to have broken the other button. I’m having problems debugging the script, because I don’t know if Firebug can set breakpoints in externally requested (via XHR) pages.

I tried adding a click handler to the broken button that just called showRegister(), and that didn’t work either. showRegister() simple calls $('#linkFromIndexDotHtml').click(); which is, in fact, a link from index.html. I thought that may be the problem, but it worked prior.

Answer 1

I had the same problem and solved it with info from http://old.nabble.com/Validation-and-Facebox-td22187264s27240.html

$.extend($.facebox, {
    settings: {
    dom_data: null,
    dom: null,

…
*add in the variables dom and dom_data in the main declaration of
facebox

if (href.match(/#/)) {
      var url    = window.location.href.split('#')[0]
      var target = href.replace(url,'')
      $.facebox.settings.dom = target;
      $.facebox.settings.dom_data = $(target).children();
      $.facebox.reveal($(target).children().show(), klass)

…
*this is in fillFaceboxFromHref

finally,

$(document).bind('close.facebox', function() {
  if($.facebox.settings.dom){
  $($.facebox.settings.dom).append($.facebox.settings.dom_data);

  $.facebox.settings.dom = null;
  $.facebox.settings.dom_data = null;
  }

…
* this is at the end of the file