Question

My registration is using Spring forms and validates the data after submit, the form:errors will be printed out if there are errors. I need to scroll the page down to the first form:error so the user hasn’t to search for the error, is there a way to do that?

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Answer 1

I haven’t tried any of them, but I can think of two possible ways:

• With Javascript. Spans generated by < form:errors /> have a class (I don’t remember at the moment) or you can force on using cssClass attribute. Would be very easy using this jQuery plugin to scroll to the first one.

• Without Javascript. This will be a lot more difficult and I’m not sure it will work:

  • In your controller, instead of returning a direct view you must do a redirect to something like /myForm#error.
  • In order to don’t lose your model, you must use FlashMap attributes.
  • “Subclass” < form:errors /> tag. It must have the same behavior but it has to include an anchor named error on the first error of the page.