I use javascript to validate my form input and it works fine but the form still gets submitted when errors are not corrected.
How do I prevent form submission until the user makes corrections?
Sample Code Below;
$('.validate').hide();
$('body').on('blur', '#phone', function() {
$('.validate').hide();
isphone($(this).val());
});
function isphone(phone) {
if (phone === "1234" || phone === "23456") {
$(".validate").show();
} else {
$(".validate").hide();
}
}<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"></script>
<form action='' method='POST' id="submitForm">
<input type="phone" name='phone' required='' id="phone" placeholder="0000-000-0000" />
<div class="validate"><span style="color: red;"><b>Phone in use!</b></span></div>
<button href='/' type='submit' id="submitForm">Process</button>
</form>To write a helpful answer, I made a small refactor, rewriting isphone to be a reusable validation function that just returns true or false. I renamed it too. Now we can reuse the validation logic in different places.
form elements emit a submit event just before they are actually submitted. We must listen for the sumbit event, and if validation fails, we can return false which will cancel the event, and therefore preventing form submission.
$('.validate').hide();
$('body').on('blur', '#phone', function() {
var value = $(this).val();
if (isPhoneInUse(value)) {
$(".validate").show();
} else {
$(".validate").hide();
}
});
$('#submitForm').on('submit', function(e) {
var value = $("#phone").val();
if (isPhoneInUse(value)) {
// validation failed. cancel the event
console.log("not submitting");
return false;
}
})
function isPhoneInUse(phone) {
return (phone === "1234" || phone === "23456")
}<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"></script>
<form action='' method='POST' id="submitForm">
<input type="phone" name='phone' required='' id="phone" placeholder="0000-000-0000" />
<div class="validate"><span style="color: red;"><b>Phone in use!</b></span></div>
<button href='/' type='submit' id="submitForm">Process</button>
</form>